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Symmetry Breaking, Central Charges and the AdS_2/CFT_1 Correspondence

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

When two-dimensional Anti-de Sitter space (AdS_2) is endowed with a non-constant dilaton the origin of the central charge in the Virasoro algebra generating the asymptotic symmetries of AdS_2 can be traced back to the breaking of the SL(2,R) isometry group of AdS_2. We use this fact to clarify some controversial results appeared in the literature about the value of the central charge in these models.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0002256,
  title  = {Symmetry Breaking, Central Charges and the AdS_2/CFT_1 Correspondence},
  author = {Mariano Cadoni and Salvatore Mignemi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0002256},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

version 3, some points have been clarified