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We consider holographic duals of $2$-dimensional conformal field theories in the presence of a boundary, interface, defect and/or junction, referred to collectively as BCFTs. In general, the presence of a boundary reduces the $SO(2,2)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 John Estes

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

In this paper, we study a new class of AdS/BCFT setups, where the world-volumes of end-of-the-world branes (EOW branes) are given by flat spaces, to explore flat space holography from an AdS bulk. We show that they provide gravity duals of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 Peng-Xiang Hao , Naoki Ogawa , Tadashi Takayanagi , Takahiro Waki

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 discuss dilatonic gravity (bulk theory) from the point of view of (generalized) AdS/CFT correspondence. Self-consistent dilatonic background is considered. It may be understood as two boundaries space where AdS boundary appears as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov

The network has been attracting increasing attention for its role in driving the artificial intelligence revolution and enabling profound insights into gravity. This paper investigates the gravity dual of the conformal field theory defined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-13 Yu Guo , Rong-Xin Miao

A concrete model of extracting the physics from the bulk of a gravitational universe is important to the study of quantum gravity and its possible relationship with experiments. Such a model can be constructed in the AdS/CFT correspondence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-10 Hao Geng

We study the effect of boundary deformations on the von Neumann entropy of subregions in two-dimensional boundary conformal field theories (BCFTs) at zero and finite temperature. The deformations considered are infinitesimal global…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-21 Dominik Neuenfeld , Christopher Tellinger

We study the properties of the holographic CFT dual to Gauss-Bonnet gravity in general $D \ge 5$ dimensions. We establish the AdS/CFT dictionary and in particular relate the couplings of the gravitational theory to the universal couplings…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-06-01 Alex Buchel , Jorge Escobedo , Robert C. Myers , Miguel F. Paulos , Aninda Sinha , Michael Smolkin

We study the response of a conserved current to external electromagnetic fields in a holographic system with boundaries using the recently proposed AdS/BCFT (boundary conformal field theory) framework. This, in particular, allows us to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Mitsutoshi Fujita , Matthias Kaminski , Andreas Karch

A deSitter brane-world bounding regions of anti-deSitter space has a macroscopic entropy given by one-quarter the area of the observer horizon. A proposed variant of the AdS/CFT correspondence gives a dual description of this cosmology as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Stephen Hawking , Juan Maldacena , Andrew Strominger

The cutoff version of the AdS/CFT correspondence states that the Randall Sundrum scenario is dual to a Conformal Field Theory (CFT) coupled to gravity in four dimensions. The gravitational field produced by relativistic domain walls can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-15 Luca Grisa , Oriol Pujolas

We study a constructive gravitational dual of two-dimensional $T\bar{T}$-deformed conformal field theories (CFTs) grounded in their two-dimensional gravity description. This framework can be viewed as a Randall-Sundrum-type braneworld,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-22 Shinji Hirano , Vinayak Raj

In this paper, we investigate AdS/BCFT for curvature-squared gravity. To warm up, we start with Gauss-Bonnet gravity. We derive the one point function of stress tensor and show that the central charge related to the norm of displacement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-21 Qi-Lin Hu , Dongqi Li , Rong-Xin Miao , Yu-Qian Zeng

In this paper, we study the dynamics of end-of-the-world (EOW) branes in AdS with scalar fields localized on the branes as a new class of gravity duals of CFTs on manifolds with boundaries. This allows us to construct explicit solutions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-05 Hiroki Kanda , Masahide Sato , Yu-ki Suzuki , Tadashi Takayanagi , Zixia Wei

We initiate a conformal bootstrap program to study AdS3/BCFT2 with heavy excitations. We start by solving the bootstrap equations associated with two-point functions of scalar/non-scalar primaries under the assumption that one-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-26 Yuya Kusuki , Zixia Wei

The entanglement wedge cross section in holographic picture provides a geometrical description of the entanglement for mixed states. In this paper we study the inequalities for the entanglement wedge cross section in AdS/BCFT duality. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-03 Pan Li , Yi Ling

The role of conformal anomaly in AdS/CFT and related issues is clarified. The comparison of holographic and QFT conformal anomalies (with account of brane quantum gravity contribution) indicates on the possibility for brane quantum gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov

We consider a holographic dual model for defect conformal field theories (DCFT) in which we include the backreaction of the defect on the dual geometry. In particular, we consider a dual gravity system in which a two-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-05 Johanna Erdmenger , Mario Flory , Max-Niklas Newrzella

Solutions of $(d+1)$-dimensional gravity coupled to a scalar field are obtained, which holographically realize interface and boundary CFTs. The solution utilizes a Janus-like $\mathrm{AdS}_d$ slicing ansatz and corresponds to a deformation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Michael Gutperle , Joshua Samani