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Here we present a fast review of some of developments and new results concerning applications of gravity in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence, in brane world perturbations as well as in holographic superconductors. We also discuss…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-02-26 E. Abdalla , C. E. Pellicer , Jeferson de Oliveira

We study the boundary critical behavior of conformal field theories of interacting fermions in the Gross-Neveu universality class. By a Weyl transformation, the problem can be studied by placing the CFT in an anti de Sitter space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 Simone Giombi , Elizabeth Helfenberger , Himanshu Khanchandani

We consider the problem of defining spacelike-supported boundary-to-bulk propagators in AdS$_{d+1}$ down to the unitary bound $\Delta=(d-2)/2$. That is to say, we construct the `smearing functions' $K$ of HKLL but with different boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-13 Nicolás Del Grosso , Alan Garbarz , Gabriel Palau , Guillem Pérez-Nadal

In the AdS/CFT correspondence, a topological symmetry operator of the boundary CFT is dual to a dynamical brane in the gravitational bulk. Said differently, this predicts a dynamical brane for every global symmetry of the boundary CFT. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-02 Mirjam Cvetič , Jonathan J. Heckman , Max Hübner , Chitraang Murdia

Recently, a method was described for deriving Holographic RG equation in $AdS_{D+1}$ space starting from an Exact RG equation of a $D$-dimensional boundary CFT (Sathiapalan, Sonoda, 2017). The evolution operator corresponding to the Exact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-23 Pavan Dharanipragada , Semanti Dutta , Bala Sathiapalan

In this paper we use the AdS/CFT correspondence to refine and then establish a set of old conjectures about symmetries in quantum gravity. We first show that any global symmetry, discrete or continuous, in a bulk quantum gravity theory with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-07 Daniel Harlow , Hirosi Ooguri

A four-dimensional Abelian gauge field can be coupled to a 3d CFT with a $U(1)$ symmetry living on a boundary. This coupling gives rise to a continuous family of boundary conformal field theories (BCFT) parametrized by the gauge coupling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Lorenzo Di Pietro , Davide Gaiotto , Edoardo Lauria , Jingxiang Wu

Products of large-N conformal field theories coupled by multi-trace interactions in diverse dimensions are used to define quantum multi-gravity (multi-string theory) on a union of (asymptotically) AdS spaces. One-loop effects generate a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-16 Elias Kiritsis , Vasilis Niarchos

Conformal deformations manifest in the AdS/CFT correspondence as boundary conditions on the AdS field. Heretofore, double-trace deformations have been the primary focus in this context. To better understand multitrace deformations, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-14 Sean Cantrell

The bulk reconstructions in AdS/CFT and its cousins are essential to understand the holographic nature of quantum gravity. In this work, we try to study the bulk reconstruction in the AdS$_3$/WCFT$_2$ correspondence. After deriving the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-30 Yu-han Lin , Bin Chen

The locality of bulk physics at distances below the AdS length is one of the remarkable aspects of AdS/CFT duality, and one of the least tested. It requires that the AdS radius be large compared to the Planck length and the string length.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Idse Heemskerk , Joao Penedones , Joseph Polchinski , James Sully

We consider a perturbation of the Einstein gravity with the Neumann boundary condition, which is regarded as an end of the world brane (ETW brane) of the AdS/BCFT correspondence, in the AdSd+1 spaectime where d is larger than 2. We obtain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Yu-ki Suzuki , Seiji Terashima

We explore the extent to which a local string theory dynamics in anti-de Sitter space can be determined from its proposed Conformal Field Theory (CFT) description. Free fields in the bulk are constructed from the CFT operators, but…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Tom Banks , Michael R. Douglas , Gary T. Horowitz , Emil Martinec

Considering theories in sectors of large global charge $Q$ results in a semiclassical effective field theory (EFT) description for some strongly-coupled conformal field theories (CFTs) with continuous global symmetries. Hence, when studying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Orestis Loukas , Domenico Orlando , Susanne Reffert , Debajyoti Sarkar

We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for a Conformal Field Theory to have a description in terms of a perturbative Effective Field Theory in AdS. The first two conditions are well-known: the existence of a perturbative `1/N'…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Jared Kaplan

We revisit the construction of local bulk operators in AdS/CFT with special focus on gravitational dressing and its consequences for bulk locality. Specializing to 2+1-dimensions, we investigate these issues via the proposed identification…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Aitor Lewkowycz , Gustavo J. Turiaci , Herman Verlinde

The dual dynamics of Einstein gravity on AdS$_3$ supplemented with boundary conditions of KdV-type is identified. It corresponds to a two-dimensional field theory at the boundary, described by a novel action principle whose field equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Hernán A. González , Javier Matulich , Miguel Pino , Ricardo Troncoso

The AdS/CFT correspondence states an equivalence between a quantum gravitational theory in a (d+1)-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime (AdS$_{d+1}$) and a d-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT$_{d}$). The CFT$_{d}$ lives on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-23 Hao Geng , Daniel Jafferis , Pushkal Shrivastava , Neeraj Tata

The AdS/CFT correspondence defines a sector with universal strongly coupled dynamics in the field theory as the dual of pure gravity in AdS described by Einstein's equation with a negative cosmological constant. We explain here, from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-12 Ramakrishnan Iyer , Ayan Mukhopadhyay

According to the AdS/CFT dictionary, perturbing the large N boundary theory by a relevant double-trace deformation of the form f O^2 corresponds in the bulk to imposing ``mixed'' boundary conditions for the field dual to O. In this note we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Hartman , Leonardo Rastelli