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In this note, we define a holographic dual to four-dimensional superconformal field theories formulated on arbitrary Riemannian manifolds equipped with a Killing vector. Moreover, assuming smoothness of the bulk solution, we study the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-04 Pietro Benetti Genolini , Paul Richmond

We use holography and four-dimensional $\,\mathcal{N}=4\,$ gauged supergravity to collect evidence for a large class of interconnected three-dimensional $\,\mathcal{N}=2\,$ conformal field theories. On the gravity side, we construct a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-12 Miguel Chamorro-Burgos , Adolfo Guarino , Colin Sterckx

In a complex manifold, one can bridge anti-de Sitter and de Sitter spacetimes via analytic continuation, preserving geometric invariants and regularity, avoiding singularities during the AdS-dS transition. It unifies gravitational and gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-12 J. W. Moffat , E. J. Thompson

We introduce an operational, boundary-first framework that embeds relativistic quantum-information protocols into anti-de Sitter/Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) by coupling an Unruh--DeWitt detector directly to a local scalar primary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-10 Ming Zhang , Jiayue Yang , Dyuman Bhattacharya , Robert B. Mann

I argue that the conventional field theoretic notion of vacuum state is not valid in quantum gravity. The arguments use gravitational effective field theory, as well as results from string theory, particularly the AdS/CFT correspondence.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-09-24 Tom Banks

In this work, we point out a contradiction between holography and scale-separated AdS (i.e. parametrically large mass gap) in string theory, making the standard assumption that the holographic CFT describes the IR degrees of freedom on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-10 Alek Bedroya , Paul J. Steinhardt

We show that any conformal field theory in d-dimensional Minkowski space, in a phase with spontaneously broken conformal symmetry and with the dilaton among its fields, can be rewritten in terms of the static gauge (d-1)-brane on AdS_(d+1)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 S. Bellucci , E. Ivanov , S. Krivonos

Within the framework of braneworld holography, we construct a quantum charged black hole localized on a three-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS) brane that intersects the asymptotic boundary of the four-dimensional AdS spacetime at the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-16 Yiji Feng , Hao Ma , Robert B. Mann , Yesheng Xue , Ming Zhang

The Hartle-Hawking wave function in cosmology can be viewed as a decaying wave function with anti-de Sitter (AdS) boundary conditions. We show that the growing wave function in AdS familiar from Euclidean AdS/CFT is equivalent,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-17 Gabriele Conti , Thomas Hertog , Ellen van der Woerd

In addition to describing our universe, gravitational theories profoundly inspire the study of emergent properties of exotic phases of matter. While the Anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence is one of the most…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-11 Alejo Costa Duran , Mauricio Sturla , Ludovic D. C. Jaubert , Han Yan

The AdS/CFT correspondence relates certain strongly coupled CFTs with large effective central charge $c_\text{eff}$ to semi-classical gravitational theories with AdS asymptotics. We describe recent progress in understanding gravity duals…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-05 Donald Marolf , Mukund Rangamani , Toby Wiseman

Motivated by the holographic principle, within the context of the AdS/CFT Correspondence in the large t'Hooft limit, we investigate how the geometry of certain highly symmetric bulk spacetimes can be recovered given information of physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-16 Samuel Bilson

By generalizing different recent works to the context of higher curvature gravity, we provide a unifying framework for three related results: (i) If an asymptotically AdS spacetime computes the entanglement entropies of ball-shaped regions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-22 Felix M. Haehl , Eliot Hijano , Onkar Parrikar , Charles Rabideau

The large radius limit in the AdS/CFT correspondence is expected to provide a holographic derivation of flat-space scattering amplitudes. This suggests that questions of locality in the bulk should be addressed in terms of properties of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Steven B. Giddings

We consider the AdS_2/CFT_1 holographic correspondence near the horizon of big four-dimensional black holes preserving four supersymmetries in toroidally compactified Type-II string theory. The boundary partition function of CFT_1 is given…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-02-20 Atish Dabholkar , Joao Gomes , Sameer Murthy

We propose a model of the Kondo effect based on the Anti-de Sitter/Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence, also known as holography. The Kondo effect is the screening of a magnetic impurity coupled anti-ferromagnetically to a bath…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Johanna Erdmenger , Carlos Hoyos , Andy O'Bannon , Jackson Wu

Four-dimensional (4D) flat Minkowski space admits a foliation by hyperbolic slices. Euclidean AdS3 slices fill the past and future lightcones of the origin, while dS3 slices fill the region outside the lightcone. The resulting link between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Adam Ball , Elizabeth Himwich , Sruthi A. Narayanan , Sabrina Pasterski , Andrew Strominger

We consider the toroidally compactified planar AdS-Schwarzschild solution to 4-dimensional gravity with negative cosmological constant. This has a flat torus conformal boundary metric. We show that if the spatial part of the boundary metric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-10 Krai Cheamsawat , Gary Gibbons , Toby Wiseman

According to 't Hooft, restoring Poincar\'e invariance in a holographic cellular automaton (CA) requires two distinct evolution laws that commute. We explore how this is realized in the AdS/CFT framework, assuming commutativity as a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Hyunju Go

The Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) in anti-de Sitter spacetime (AdS) asserts the existence of an operator in the boundary conformal field theory (CFT) whose scaling dimension-to-charge ratio satisfies a certain upper bound. This bound is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-04 Minseok Cho , Sunjin Choi , Ki-Hong Lee , Jaewon Song