Seeing a c-theorem with holography
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-02-04 v2 Statistical Mechanics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Quantum Physics
Abstract
There is no known model in holography exhibiting a -theorem where the central charges of the dual CFT are distinct. We examine a holographic model of RG flows in a framework where the bulk gravity theory contains higher curvature terms. The latter allows us to distinguish the flow of the central charges and in the dual field theories in four dimensions. One finds that the flow of is naturally monotonic but that of is not. Extending the analysis of holographic RG flows to higher dimensions, we are led to formulate a novel c-theorem in arbitrary dimensions for a universal coefficient appearing in the entanglement entropy of the fixed point CFT's.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1006.1263,
title = {Seeing a c-theorem with holography},
author = {Robert C. Myers and Aninda Sinha},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.1263},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
5 pages, 1 figure, v2: minor changes