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We study classical M5 brane solutions in the probe limit in the $AdS_7\times S^4$ background geometry that preserve the minimal amount of supersymmetry. These solutions describe the holography of codimension-2 defects in the 6d boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-24 Varun Gupta

We construct a holographic model of defect conformal field theories (DCFTs) with defects of codimension greater than one. Our construction generalizes the AdS/BCFT model by anchoring the end-of-the-world brane on defects at the asymptotic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-29 Haruki Nakayama , Tatsuma Nishioka

We study holographic implications of Lovelock gravities in AdS spacetimes. For a generic Lovelock gravity in arbitrary spacetime dimensions we formulate the existence condition for asymptotically AdS black holes. We consider small…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Jan de Boer , Manuela Kulaxizi , Andrei Parnachev

This paper studies aspects of ``holography'' for Euclidean signature pure gravity on asymptotically AdS 3-manifolds. This theory can be described as SL(2,C) CS theory. However, not all configurations of CS theory correspond to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Kirill Krasnov

In the framework of double holography, we investigate the entanglement behavior of a brane subregion in AdS spacetime coupled to a bath on its boundary and also extract the contribution from the quantum matter within this subregion. From…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-14 Yuxuan Liu , Qian Chen , Yi Ling , Cheng Peng , Yu Tian , Zhuo-Yu Xian

We study the AdS/CFT correspondence with a brane extending in AdS, a setup which is dual to CFT in the presence of a defect. We focus on the correlation function of two local operators and the defect, which is the simplest observable with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-22 Aleix Gimenez-Grau

A great deal of progress has been recently made in the study of holography for non-conformal branes. Considering the near-horizon limit of backgrounds generated by such branes, we discuss the holographic renormalization of probe D-branes in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-26 Paolo Benincasa

We find new asymptotically locally AdS$_4$ Euclidean supersymmetric solutions of the STU model in four-dimensional gauged supergravity. These "black saddles" have an $S^1\times \Sigma_{\mathfrak{g}}$ boundary at asymptotic infinity and cap…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-21 Nikolay Bobev , Anthony M. Charles , Vincent S. Min

Gravity may be "locally localized" over a wide range of length scales on a d-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS) brane living inside AdS_{d+1}. In this paper we examine this phenomenon from the point of view of the holographic dual "defect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Ofer Aharony , Oliver DeWolfe , Daniel Z. Freedman , Andreas Karch

In an odd-dimensional spacetime, gravity can be formulated as a proper gauge theory based on the Chern-Simons action for a suitable gauge group. Performing dimensional reduction, one obtains, as an effective theory, Chamseddine's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-31 Dušan Đorđević , Dragoljub Gočanin

We study conical defect geometries in the SL(N) Chern-Simons formulation of higher spin gauge theories in AdS_3. We argue that (for N\geq 4) there are special values of the deficit angle for which these geometries are actually smooth…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Alejandra Castro , Rajesh Gopakumar , Michael Gutperle , Joris Raeymaekers

We study defect CFT within the framework of holographic duality, emphasizing the impact of corner contributions. We model distinct conformal defects using interface branes that differ in tensions and are connected by a corner. Employing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-06 Xinyu Sun , Shao-Kai Jian

We study torsional topological defects in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity in ($4+1$)-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime. In the holographic interpretation, these correspond to crystalline dislocation defects associated with the discrete…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-14 Vladimir Juričić , Olivera Miskovic , Francisca Ramírez Carrasco

We discuss the properties of codimension-two branes and compare them to codimension-one branes. In particular, we show that for deficit angle branes the brane energy momentum tensor is uniquely related to integration constants in the bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-27 Jan-Markus Schwindt , Christof Wetterich

Topological symmetry operators of holographic large $N$ CFT$_D$'s are dual to dynamical branes in the gravity dual AdS$_{D+1}$. We use this correspondence to establish a dictionary between thermal expectation values of symmetry operators in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-09 Jonathan J. Heckman , Max Hübner , Chitraang Murdia

We present a novel derivation of the full holographic conformal anomaly in two five-dimensional scalar-tensor theories-one Lovelock-Horndeski type and one Einstein-dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet-obtained via a unified mechanism for Kaluza-Klein…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-17 Tianhao Wu , Michael Stone

We study the constraints of superconformal symmetry on codimension two defects in four-dimensional superconformal field theories. We show that the one-point function of the stress tensor and the two-point function of the displacement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-22 Lorenzo Bianchi , Madalena Lemos

We investigate holography on an (n-1)-dimensional brane embedded in a background of AdS black holes, in n-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet gravity. We demonstrate that for a critical brane near the AdS boundary, the Friedmann equation corresponds…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 James P. Gregory , Antonio Padilla

We derive the effective cosmological equations for a non-$\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetric codimension one brane embedded in an arbitrary D-dimensional bulk spacetime, generalizing the $D=5,6$ cases much studied previously. As a particular case,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Chatillon , C. Macesanu , M. Trodden

We give the equations of motion for a self-gravitating Dirac p-brane embedded in an even co-dimension spacetime. The dynamics of the bulk are dictated by Lovelock gravity and permit matching conditions, even when the codimension is strictly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Christos Charmousis , Robin Zegers