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Motivated by holography, we explore higher derivative corrections to four-dimensional Anti-de Sitter (AdS) gravity. We point out that in such a theory the variational problem is generically not well-posed given only a boundary condition for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Jelena Smolic , Marika Taylor

We investigate a higher-derivative scalar field model in a fixed d+1 dimensional AdS background as a toy model for a gravitational dual to a higher-rank logarithmic CFT. The holographic two-point correlation functions on the boundary agree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-08 Eric A. Bergshoeff , Sjoerd de Haan , Wout Merbis , Massimo Porrati , Jan Rosseel

The Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) in anti-de Sitter spacetime (AdS) asserts the existence of an operator in the boundary conformal field theory (CFT) whose scaling dimension-to-charge ratio satisfies a certain upper bound. This bound is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-04 Minseok Cho , Sunjin Choi , Ki-Hong Lee , Jaewon Song

We discuss general multidimensional axion-dilatonic AdS gravity which may correspond to bosonic sector of Gibbons-Green-Perry (compactified) IIB supergravity with RR-scalar (axion). Using AdS/CFT correspondence the 4d conformal anomaly on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 S. Nojiri , S. D. Odintsov , S. Ogushi , A. Sugamoto , M. Yamamoto

The standard formulation of the AdS/CFT correspondence is incomplete since it requires adding to a supergravity action some a priori unknown boundary terms. We suggest a modification of the correspondence principle based on the Hamiltonian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 G. E. Arutyunov , S. A. Frolov

Using the fact that flat space with a boundary is related by a Weyl transformation to anti-de Sitter (AdS) space, one may study observables in boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) by placing a CFT in AdS. In addition to correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-20 Simone Giombi , Himanshu Khanchandani

The AdS/CFT correspondence provides a new perspective on recurrent questions in General Relativity such as the allowed boundary conditions at infinity and the definition of gravitational conserved charges. Here we review the main insights…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-14 Kostas Skenderis , Marika Taylor , Balt C. van Rees

In AdS/CFT, the holographic Weyl anomaly computation relates the a-anomaly coefficient to the properties of the bulk action at the UV fixed point. This universal behavior suggests the possibility of a holographic c-theorem for the a-anomaly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 James T. Liu , Wafic Sabra , Zhichen Zhao

In this paper we will consider the Almheiri-Polchinski model of the AdS$_2$ back reaction coupled with Liouville field, which is necessary for quantum consistency. In this model, the Liouville field is determined classically by a bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-06 Ryuichi Nakayama , Tomotaka Suzuki

We develop a consistent partially off-shell framework for evaluating higher-derivative actions of five-dimensional $\cal{N}=1$ gauged supergravity with abelian vector multiplets on AdS$_5$. Using the superconformal formalism, we show that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 Kiril Hristov , Saurish Khandelwal , Yi Pang , Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli

We use the relation between certain diffeomorphisms in the bulk and Weyl transformations on the boundary to build the conformal structure of the metric in the presence of matter in the bulk. We explicitly obtain the conformal anomaly in any…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-23 Mozhgan Mir

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

We study Vasiliev's system of higher spin gauge fields coupled to massive scalars in AdS_3, and compute the tree level two and three point functions. These are compared to the large N limit of the W_N minimal model, and nontrivial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Chi-Ming Chang , Xi Yin

We conjecture that Vasiliev's theory of higher spin gravity in four-dimensional de Sitter space (dS) is holographically dual to a three-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) living on the spacelike boundary of dS at future timelike…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-31 Dionysios Anninos , Thomas Hartman , Andrew Strominger

This paper, presents the gravity duals of Conformal Field Theories with boundaries. This theory is known as AdS/BCFT correspondence. In this duality, our system has 3D gravity coupling with the Maxwell field dual to 2D BCFT. On the gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-22 Fabiano F. Santos

We consider higher dimensional gravity in which the four dimensional spacetime and extra dimensions are not treated on an equal footing. The anisotropy is implemented in the ADM decomposition of higher dimensional metric by requiring the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-27 Taeyoon Moon , Phillial Oh

We study bimetric gravity through the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence, especially, in the first order hdrodynamic limit. If we put pure general relativity as a bulk field, the boundary field theory is interpreted as fluid of the N = 4…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-07 Kouichi Nomura

We formulate a correspondence between non-relativistic conformal field theories (NRCFTs) in d-1 spatial dimensions and gravitational theories in AdS_{d+2} backgrounds with one compactified lightlike direction. The breaking of the maximal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-05 Walter D. Goldberger

Higher-derivative corrections in the AdS/CFT correspondence allow us to capture finer details of the dual CFT and to explore the holographic dictionary beyond the infinite N and strong coupling limits. Following an effective field theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-24 Pablo A. Cano , Marina David

It is a long-standing conjecture that any CFT with a large central charge and a large gap $\Delta_{\text{gap}}$ in the spectrum of higher-spin single-trace operators must be dual to a local effective field theory in AdS. We prove a sharp…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Simon Caron-Huot , Dalimil Mazac , Leonardo Rastelli , David Simmons-Duffin