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We consider different sets of AdS$_2$ boundary conditions for the Jackiw-Teitelboim model in the linear dilaton sector where the dilaton is allowed to fluctuate to leading order at the boundary of the Poincar\'e disk. The most general set…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Daniel Grumiller , Robert McNees , Jakob Salzer , Carlos Valcárcel , Dmitri Vassilevich

We study relation between stochastic quantization and holographic Wilsonian renormalization group flow. Considering stochastic quantization of the boundary on-shell actions with the Dirichlet boundary condition for certain $AdS$ bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-04 Jae-Hyuk Oh , Dileep P. Jatkar

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

We obtain retarded Green's functions for massless scalar fields in the background of near-extreme, near-horizon rotating charged black holes of five-dimensional minimal gauged supergravity. The radial part of the (separable) massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-12 Tolga Birkandan , Mirjam Cvetič

We analyze the $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric Wess-Zumino model dimensionally reduced to the $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric model in three Euclidean dimensions. As in the original model in four dimensions and the $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-21 Polina Feldmann , Andreas Wipf , Luca Zambelli

We present a streamlined proof that any Einstein-AdS space is a solution of the Lu, Pang and Pope conformal gravity theory in six dimensions. The reduction of conformal gravity into Einstein theory manifestly shows that the action of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-13 Giorgos Anastasiou , Ignacio J. Araya , Cristobal Corral , Rodrigo Olea

We provide a new derivation of the Hawking mass and Willmore energy functionals for asymptotically AdS spacetimes, by embedding Einstein-AdS gravity in Conformal Gravity. By construction, the evaluation of the four-dimensional Conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-09 Giorgos Anastasiou , Ignacio J. Araya , Rodrigo Olea

We study the gravitational Dirichlet problem in AdS spacetimes with a view to understanding the boundary CFT interpretation. We define the problem as bulk Einstein's equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions on fixed timelike cut-off…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Daniel K. Brattan , Joan Camps , R. Loganayagam , Mukund Rangamani

We investigate the covariant Hamiltonian symplectic structure of General Relativity for spatially bounded regions of spacetime with a fixed time-flow vector. For existence of a well-defined Hamiltonian variational principle taking into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Stephen C. Anco , Roh S. Tung

We study the thermodynamics of $AdS_4$ black hole solutions of Einstein-Maxwell theory that are accelerating, rotating, and carry electric and magnetic charges. We focus on the class for which the black hole horizon is a spindle and can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 Davide Cassani , Jerome P. Gauntlett , Dario Martelli , James Sparks

We study the boundary control of solutions of the Helmholtz and Maxwell equations to enforce local non-zero constraints. These constraints may represent the local absence of nodal or critical points, or that certain functionals depending on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-26 Giovanni S. Alberti

Bosonic sector of d5 gauged supergravity with specific parametrization of full scalar coset is considered (multi-dilaton gravity). Using holographic RG in the form suggested by de Boer-Verlinde-Verlinde the holographic d4 conformal anomaly…

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

We obtain holographically renormalized boundary stress tensors with the emphasis on a special point in the parameter space of three dimensional new massive gravity, using the so-called Fefferman-Graham coordinates with relevant counter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Yongjoon Kwon , Soonkeon Nam , Jong-Dae Park , Sang-Heon Yi

This is the second paper in a series of papers adressing the characteristic gluing problem for the Einstein vacuum equations. We solve the codimension-$10$ characteristic gluing problem for characteristic data which are close to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Stefanos Aretakis , Stefan Czimek , Igor Rodnianski

We consider the generic massless cubic gravities coupled to a negative bare cosmological constant mainly in $D=5$ and $D=4$ dimensions, which are Einstein gravity extended with cubic curvature invariants where the linearized excited…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-03 Yue-Zhou Li

We discuss specific hypergeometric solutions of the conformal Ward identities (CWI's) of scalar 4-point functions of primary fields in momentum space, in $d$ spacetime dimensions. We determine such solutions using various dual conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Claudio Corianò , Matteo Maria Maglio

In this paper, we introduce the Freelance Holography Program, an extension of the AdS/CFT correspondence within the saddle-point approximation that opens several novel directions. This framework generalizes holography beyond the asymptotic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-26 Vahid Taghiloo

In the prototypical AdS$_5$/CFT$_4$ correspondence, the free energy of $\mathcal{N}=4$ SU$(N)$ super Yang-Mills theory is commonly reproduced from the Euclidean on-shell action of five-dimensional gauged supergravity -- a consistent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-23 Soumya Adhikari , Junho Hong , Chanyoung Joung , Geum Lee

Quantum field theory on rotating black hole spacetimes is plagued with technical difficulties. Here, we describe a general method to renormalize and compute the vacuum polarization of a quantum field in the Hartle-Hawking state on rotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-06 Hugo R. C. Ferreira

We formulate the variational problem for AdS gravity with Dirichlet boundary conditions and demonstrate that the covariant counterterms are necessary to make the variational problem well-posed. The holographic charges associated with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Ioannis Papadimitriou , Kostas Skenderis