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The holographic dilaton

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-16 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study a set of examples of holographic duals to theories with spontaneous breaking of conformal invariance in different dimensions. The geometries are domain walls interpolating between two AdS spaces, with a non-trivial background scalar field dual to a relevant operator. We comment on a subtlety in the low momentum expansion pointed out in arXiv:1304.3051 for the case of background gravity and revise the dynamical gravity results of arXiv:1207.0006, where the dilaton pole was missing in the scalar-scalar and tensor-tensor two-point functions. We compute the energy-momentum tensor and scalar two-point functions and show that there is indeed a massless dilaton pole.

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@article{arxiv.1307.2572,
  title  = {The holographic dilaton},
  author = {Carlos Hoyos and Uri Kol and Jacob Sonnenschein and Shimon Yankielowicz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.2572},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

28 pages. v2: references added. v3: published version in JHEP

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