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We define a holographic dual to the Donaldson-Witten topological twist of $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theories on a Riemannian four-manifold. This is described by a class of asymptotically locally hyperbolic solutions to $\mathcal{N}=4$ gauged…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-30 Pietro Benetti Genolini , Paul Richmond , James Sparks

This thesis explores topics related to the study of quantum gravity, with a focus on precision holography and higher-derivative supergravity. First, we study subleading corrections to the free energy of a particular 3D N=3…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-08 Robert J. Saskowski

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

Freelance holography program is an extension of the gauge/gravity correspondence in which the boundary theory can reside on any timelike codimension-one surface in AdS space, and the boundary conditions on the bulk fields can be chosen…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari , V. Taghiloo

We propose a new approach to solve conformal field theories and apply it to Chern-Simons Matter theories and three-dimensional bosonization duality. All three-point correlation functions of single-trace operators are obtained in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-14 Evgeny D. Skvortsov

We establish a holographic gravitational dual for the fundamental dynamical equations governing operator growth in Krylov subspace. Specifically, we show that the deep interior of the Krylov subspace maps directly to the near-horizon regime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Hyun-Sik Jeong

In this paper, we obtain a bulk dual to SYK model, including SYK model with $U(1)$ charge, by Kaluza-Klein (KK) reduction from three dimensions. We show that KK reduction of the 3D Einstein action plus its boundary term gives the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-19 Adwait Gaikwad , Lata Kh Joshi , Gautam Mandal , Spenta R. Wadia

We develop the representation of bulk fields with spin one and spin two in anti-de Sitter space, as non-local observables in the dual CFT. Working in holographic gauge in the bulk, at leading order in 1/N bulk gauge fields are obtained by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Daniel Kabat , Gilad Lifschytz , Shubho Roy , Debajyoti Sarkar

We study entanglement entropy in two-dimensional conformal field theories with a gravitational anomaly. In theories with gravity duals, this anomaly is holographically represented by a gravitational Chern-Simons term in the bulk action. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Alejandra Castro , Stephane Detournay , Nabil Iqbal , Eric Perlmutter

We study a set of examples of holographic duals to theories with spontaneous breaking of conformal invariance in different dimensions. The geometries are domain walls interpolating between two AdS spaces, with a non-trivial background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Carlos Hoyos , Uri Kol , Jacob Sonnenschein , Shimon Yankielowicz

For type IIB supergravity with a running axio-dilaton, we construct bulk solutions which admit a cosmological background metric of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker type. These solutions include both a dark radiation term in the bulk as well as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-09 Johanna Erdmenger , Kazuo Ghoroku , Rene Meyer

We investigate the non-Gaussianity of primordial cosmological perturbations using holographic methods. In particular, we derive holographic formulae that relate all cosmological 3-point correlation functions, including both scalar and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-01 Paul McFadden , Kostas Skenderis

In this thesis we study two different approaches to holography, and comment on the possible relation between them. The first approach is an analysis of the high-energy regime of quantum gravity in the eikonal approximation, where the theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Sebastian de Haro

We study the holographic duals of four-dimensional field theories with 1-form global symmetries, both discrete and continuous. Such higher-form global symmetries are associated with antisymmetric tensor gauge fields in the bulk. Various…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-19 Diego M. Hofman , Nabil Iqbal

In this note, we define a holographic dual to four-dimensional superconformal field theories formulated on arbitrary Riemannian manifolds equipped with a Killing vector. Moreover, assuming smoothness of the bulk solution, we study the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-04 Pietro Benetti Genolini , Paul Richmond

A holographic correspondence has been recently developed between higher spin theories in three-dimensional anti-de Sitter space (AdS_3) and two-dimensional Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) with extended symmetries. A class of such dualities…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-09 Jan de Boer , Juan I. Jottar

In this work, we present a comprehensive study of holographic stress tensor correlators on general Riemann surfaces, extending beyond the previously well-studied torus cases to explore higher genus conformal field theories (CFTs) within the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-13 Song He , Yun-Ze Li , Yunfei Xie

We provide a non conformal generalization of the Comp\`ere-Song-Strominger (CSS) boundary conditions for AdS$_3$ gravity that breaks the $\widehat u(1)$ Kac-Moody-Virasoro symmetry to two $u(1)$s. The holographic dual specified by the new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-18 Pankaj Chaturvedi , Ioannis Papadimitriou , Wei Song , Boyang Yu

In the context of $\rm AdS_3/CFT_2$, we investigate holographic correlators of the stress tensor of a conformal field theory (CFT) on a torus in this work. To calculate the correlators of the stress tensor, we employ the Einstein-Hilbert…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-05 Song He , Yi Li , Yun-Ze Li , Yunda Zhang

Computing the Euclidean spacetime action on-shell provides a useful way of both testing holographic proposals and determining the string theory sphere partition function. We consider families of three-dimensional linear dilaton spacetimes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Andrea Dei , Kiarash Naderi , Savdeep Sethi