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2+1-dimensional Anti-deSitter gravity is quantized in the presence of an external scalar field. We find that the coupling between the scalar field and gravity is equivalently described by a perturbed conformal field theory at the boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Roberto Emparan , Ivo Sachs

We introduce a three-dimensional quantum field theory with an infinite-dimensional symmetry, realized explicitly through a centrally extended affine graded Lie algebra. This symmetry is a direct three-dimensional generalization of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-04 Hank Chen , Joaquin Liniado

A quantum deformation of the conformal algebra of the Minkowskian spacetime in $(3+1)$ dimensions is identified with a deformation of the $(4+1)$-dimensional AdS algebra. Both Minkowskian and AdS first-order non-commutative spaces are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Angel Ballesteros , N Rossano Bruno , Francisco J. Herranz

Large-$N$, $\epsilon$-expansion or the conformal bootstrap allow one to make sense of some of conformal field theories in non-integer dimension, which suggests that AdS/CFT may also extend to fractional dimensions. It was shown recently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-29 E. D. Skvortsov , Tung Tran

This is the second of a series of two papers devoted to the partition function realization of Wilson surfaces in strict higher gauge theory. A higher 2--dimensional counterpart of the topological coadjoint orbit quantum mechanical model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-25 Roberto Zucchini

We investigate Cauchy Slice Holography in de Sitter spacetime. By performing a $T^2$ deformation of a (bottom-up) dS/CFT model, we obtain a holographic theory living on flat Cauchy slices of de Sitter, for which time is an emergent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-28 Goncalo Araujo-Regado , Ayngaran Thavanesan , Aron C. Wall

We apply the $AdS/CFT$ holography to the simplest possible eternal time machine solution in $AdS_3$ based on two conical defects moving around their center of mass along a circular orbit. Closed timelike curves in this space-time extend all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-07 Irina Arefeva , Andrey Bagrov , Petter Saterskog , Koenraad Schalm

A dynamical aspect of quantum gravity on de Sitter spacetime is investigated by holography or the dS/CFT correspondence. We show that de Sitter spacetime emerges from a free Sp(N) vector model by complexifying the ghost fields and flowing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-10 Shuichi Yokoyama

We reformulate chiral higher-spin Yang-Mills and gravity on $\mathbb{R}^4$ as 'CR-holomorphic' theories of Chern-Simons type; in the most general case, these are Moyal deformed to become non-commutative. They are defined on the space of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-15 Lionel Mason , Atul Sharma

It is well known that certain features of a quantum theory cannot be described in the standard picture on a Hilbert space. In particular, this happens when we try to formally frame a quantum field theory, or a thermodynamic system with…

We study the dynamical evolution of strongly coupled field theories, initially in thermal equilibrium, under the influence of an external driving force. We model the field theory holographically using classical gravitational dynamics in an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Mukund Rangamani , Moshe Rozali , Anson Wong

We show that the $T \overline{T}$ deformation of two-dimensional quantum field theory on $\mathrm{AdS}_2$ is well-defined and solvable at the quantum level. Flow equations for the energy spectrum and partition function are derived in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-13 T. Daniel Brennan , Christian Ferko , Emil Martinec , Savdeep Sethi

We present a rigorous quantization scheme that yields a quantum field theory in general boundary form starting from a linear field theory. Following a geometric quantization approach in the K\"ahler case, state spaces arise as spaces of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-10 Robert Oeckl

We present a proposal for the description of the Higgs branch of four-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. We focus on a finite Sp(N) N=2 theory arising as dual of a configuration…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Zachary Guralnik , Stefano Kovacs , Bogdan Kulik

Flat spacetimes are foliated by hyperbolic slices that are geometrically three-dimensional de Sitter or anti-de Sitter spaces. As such, it is possible to construct flat space holographic dualities by applying the AdS/CFT bulk-to-boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-06 Walker Melton

Homogeneous gravitational wave backgrounds arise as infinite momentum limits of many geometries with a well-understood holographic description. General global aspects of these geometries are discussed. Using exact CFT techniques, strings in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Kiritsis , B. Pioline

This letter serves as the generalization of the work 2505.16436, where we investigated the quantum field theory in Klein space which has two time directions. We extend studies to the general spacetime $\mathbb{R}^{n,d-n}\,(n,d-n\geq2)$ in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Bin Chen , Zezhou Hu , Xin-Cheng Mao

A holographic derivation of the entanglement entropy in quantum (conformal) field theories is proposed from AdS/CFT correspondence. We argue that the entanglement entropy in d+1 dimensional conformal field theories can be obtained from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Shinsei Ryu , Tadashi Takayanagi

This paper studies a class of four-dimensional quantum field theories which arise by quantizing local holomorphic field theories on twistor space. These theories have some remarkable properties: in particular, all correlation functions are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-18 Kevin J. Costello

An action principle is presented for Vasiliev's Bosonic higher spin gauge theory in four spacetime dimensions. The action is of the form of a broken topological field theory, and arises by an extension of the MacDowell-Mansouri formulation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-17 Nima Doroud , Lee Smolin