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High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-14 José D. Edelstein , Nicolás Grandi , Alberto Rivadulla Sánchez

The integration of high-energy degrees of freedom along the renormalization group (RG) flow in Poincar\'e-invariant theories can be captured by a monotonic c-function. For such theories, holographic monotonic c-functions have been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-05 Dimitrios Giataganas

In holographic theories, the Hubeny-Rangamani-Takayanagi (HRT) area operator plays a key role in our understanding of the emergence of semiclassical Einstein-Hilbert gravity. When higher derivative corrections are included, the role of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-10 Xi Dong , Donald Marolf , Pratik Rath

In arXiv:1508.01343 [hep-th], one of the authors proposed that in AdS/CFT the gravity dual of the boundary $c$-theorem is the second law of thermodynamics satisfied by causal horizons in AdS and this was verified for Einstein gravity in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-30 Shamik Banerjee , Arpan Bhattacharyya

We study holographic c-theorems based on timelike entanglement entropy and show that a timelike c-function captures irreversible renormalization group (RG) flow. We demonstrate that timelike c-functions are applicable to both relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-19 Dimitrios Giataganas

We discuss c-functions and their holographic counterpart for two-dimensional field theories with Carrollian conformal fixed points in the UV and the IR. Specifically, we construct asymptotically flat domain wall solutions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-26 Daniel Grumiller , Max Riegler

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

We develop a general framework for computing the holographic 2-point functions and the corresponding conductivities in asymptotically locally AdS backgrounds with an electric charge density, a constant magentic field, and possibly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-26 E. J. Lindgren , Ioannis Papadimitriou , Anastasios Taliotis , Joris Vanhoof

This thesis reviews the conjectured holographic relation between entanglement and gravity due to Mark van Raamsdonk and collaborators. It is accounted how the linearized Einstein equations both with and without matter in a d+1-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-30 Rasmus Jaksland

A set of linear differential equations was recently put forward as higher-dimensional generalizations of the BPZ null-state equations in two-dimensional CFTs at large central charge. In this work, we derive these higher-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-06 Kuo-Wei Huang

We use the holographic language to show the existence of the $a$-theorem for even dimensional CFTs, dual to the AdS space in general quadratic curvature gravity. We find the Wess-Zumino action which is originated from the spontaneous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-13 Ahmad Ghodsi , Malihe Siahvoshan

In this work we investigate holographic spacelike and timelike entanglement entropy using the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription, for slab-shaped and ball-shaped entangling regions. We work with an infinite family of 10-dimensional Type IIB…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-09 Jonathan Whittle

Motivated by recent evidence indicating that Quantum Einstein Gravity (QEG) might be nonperturbatively renormalizable, the exact renormalization group equation of QEG is evaluated in a truncation of theory space which generalizes the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 O. Lauscher , M. Reuter

We derive an extension of the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription for curvature squared theories of gravity in the bulk, and comment on a prescription for more general theories. This results in a new entangling functional, that contains a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Joan Camps

In this paper, we demonstrate the emergence of nonlinear gravitational equations directly from the physics of a broad class of conformal field theories. We consider CFT excited states defined by adding sources for scalar primary or stress…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Thomas Faulkner , Felix M. Haehl , Eliot Hijano , Onkar Parrikar , Charles Rabideau , Mark Van Raamsdonk

Recently proposed double trace deformations of large $N$ holographic CFTs in four dimensions define a one parameter family of quantum field theories, which are interpreted in the bulk dual as living on successive finite radius…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-20 Vasudev Shyam

The holographic charged fluid with anomalous current in Einstein-Maxwell gravity has been generalized from the infinite boundary to the finite cutoff surface by using the gravity/fluid correspondence. After perturbing the boosted…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-01 Xiaojian Bai , Ya-Peng Hu , Bum-Hoon Lee , Yun-Long Zhang

Recent studies of holographic properties of massless higher-order gravities, whose linear spectrum contains only the (massless) graviton, yielded some universal relations in $d=4$ dimensions between the holographic $a$, $c$ charges and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-19 H. Lu , Rui Wen

We prove a holographic c-theorem for the a central charge in AdS/CFT where the bulk is described by a gravitational action built out of an arbitrary function f(R^{ab}_{cd}) of the Riemann tensor coupled to bulk matter. This theorem holds…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-29 James T. Liu , Zhichen Zhao

We consider gravity in three dimensions with an arbitrary number of curvature corrections. We show that such corrections are always functions of only three independent curvature invariants. Demanding the existence of a holographic c-theorem…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-11 Miguel F. Paulos