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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 cc-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 aa and cc in the dual field theories in four dimensions. One finds that the flow of aa is naturally monotonic but that of cc 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.

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@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}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure, v2: minor changes

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