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Torsional degrees of freedom in AdS4/CFT3

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-12-01 v1

Abstract

We discuss the holographic implications of torsional degrees of freedom in the context of AdS4/CFT3, emphasizing in particular their physical interpretation as carriers of the non-trivial gravitational magnetic field, i.e. the part of the gravitational magnetic field not determined by the frame field. As a concrete example we present a new exact 4d gravitational background with torsion and argue that it corresponds to the holographic dual of a 3d system undergoing parity symmetry breaking. Finally, we compare our new gravitational background with known wormhole solutions - with and without cosmological constant - and argue that they can all be unified under an intriguing "Kalb-Ramond superconductivity" framework.

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@article{arxiv.1004.1640,
  title  = {Torsional degrees of freedom in AdS4/CFT3},
  author = {Anastasios C. Petkou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.1640},
  year   = {2010}
}

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31 pages, 5 figures