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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 explore a $C$-theorem in defect conformal field theories (DCFTs) that unify all the known conjectures and theorems until now. We examine as a candidate $C$-function the additional contributions from conformal defects to the sphere free…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Nozomu Kobayashi , Tatsuma Nishioka , Yoshiki Sato , Kento Watanabe

We study a number of (3+1)- and (2+1)-dimensional defect and boundary conformal field theories holographically dual to supergravity theories. In all cases the defects or boundaries are planar, and the defects are codimension-one. Using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-09 John Estes , Kristan Jensen , Andy O'Bannon , Efstratios Tsatis , Timm Wrase

We develop a renormalization method for holographic entanglement entropy based on area renormalization of entangling surfaces. The renormalized entanglement entropy is derived for entangling surfaces in asymptotically locally anti-de Sitter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Marika Taylor , William Woodhead

We consider line defects in d-dimensional Conformal Field Theories (CFTs). The ambient CFT places nontrivial constraints on Renormalization Group (RG) flows on such line defects. We show that the flow on line defects is consequently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-12 Gabriel Cuomo , Zohar Komargodski , Avia Raviv-Moshe

We consider perturbation defects obtained by perturbing a 2D conformal field theory (CFT) by a relevant operator on a half-plane. If the perturbed bulk theory flows to an infrared fixed point described by another CFT, the defect flows to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-25 Anatoly Konechny , Cornelius Schmidt-Colinet

We compute the defect entanglement entropy for co-dimension two superconformal monodromy defects in well known maximally symmetric holographic theories of various dimension. In each case we explicitly relate the universal part of the defect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 Andrea Conti , Yolanda Lozano , Filippos Rogdakis , Christopher Rosen

We introduce the concept of \textit{defect relative entropy} as a measure of distinguishability within the space of defects. We compute the defect relative entropy for conformal/topological defects, deriving a universal formula in conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-30 Mostafa Ghasemi

We study two-dimensional spherical defects in d-dimensional Conformal Field Theories. We argue that the Renormalization Group (RG) flows on such defects admit the existence of a decreasing entropy function. At the fixed points of the flow,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-13 Tom Shachar , Ritam Sinha , Michael Smolkin

We consider a composite defect system where a lower-dimensional defect (sub-defect) is embedded to a higher-dimensional one, and examine renormalization group (RG) flows localized on the defect. A composite defect is constructed in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-11 Dongsheng Ge , Tatsuma Nishioka , Soichiro Shimamori

We investigate the entanglement entropy of a two-dimensional disordered system holographically. In particular, we study the evolution of the entanglement entropy along renormalization group flows for a conformal theory at the UV fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-06 Rajesh Narayanan , Chanyong Park , Yun-Long Zhang

We first present an analysis of infinitesimal null deformations for the entanglement entropy, which leads to a major simplification of the proof of the $C$, $F$ and $A$-theorems in quantum field theory. Next, we study the quantum null…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 Horacio Casini , Ignacio Salazar Landea , Gonzalo Torroba

Defects in two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) contain signatures of their characteristics. In this work, we compute the entanglement entropy (EE) and the entanglement negativity (EN) of subsystems in the presence of energy and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-21 David Rogerson , Frank Pollmann , Ananda Roy

We study the holographic entanglement entropy of deformed entangling regions in three-dimensional CFTs dual to Einstein-AdS gravity, using a renormalization scheme based on the addition of extrinsic counterterms. In this prescription, when…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Giorgos Anastasiou , Javier Moreno , Rodrigo Olea , David Rivera-Betancour

We consider a general scalar QFT with a linear defect in $D=4-\epsilon$ and a surface defect in $D=6-\epsilon$. Using holography and the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism, we show that the $\beta$ functions controlling the defect RG flow are the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-21 I. Carreño Bolla , Diego Rodriguez-Gomez , J. G. Russo

We calculate quantum corrections to holographic entanglement entropy in the proposed duality between $T\bar{T}$-deformed holographic 2D CFTs and gravity in AdS$_{3}$ with a finite cutoff. We first establish the dictionary between the two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 William Donnelly , Elise LePage , Yan-Yan Li , Andre Pereira , Vasudev Shyam

We compute the holographic entanglement entropy contribution from planar two-dimensional defects in six-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(2,0)$ superconformal field theory, holographically dual to probe M2- and M5-branes in $AdS_7 \times S^4$. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Ronnie Rodgers

We study holographic pseudoentropy for subregions in non-unitary Euclidean conformal field theories (CFTs) within the framework of the de Sitter/conformal field theory (dS/CFT) correspondence. Pseudoentropy, defined as the von Neumann…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-28 Giorgos Anastasiou , Ignacio J. Araya , Avijit Das , Javier Moreno

We holographically investigate the renormalization group flow in a two-dimensional conformal field theory deformed by a relevant operator. If the relevant operator allows another fixed point, the UV conformal field theory smoothly flows to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Chanyong Park , Daeho Ro , Jung Hun Lee

In this paper we review the AdS/BCFT proposal of T. Takayanagi for holographic description of systems with boundaries, in particular, boundary conformal field theories (BCFTs). Motivated by better understanding of the proposed duality we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-11 Arthur G. Cavalcanti , Dmitry Melnikov , Madson R. O. Silva
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