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We study correlation functions of two AdS giant gravitons in AdS$_5\times S^5$ and a BPS supergravity mode using holography. In the gauge theory these are described by BPS correlators of Schur polynomials of fully-symmetric representations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Adolfo Holguin , Wayne W. Weng

We present a data-driven method for holographic bulk reconstruction that works even when the spacetime is not asymptotically AdS. Given the data of boundary Green functions within a finite frequency window, we iteratively adjust a bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Cheng Ran , Shao-Feng Wu , Zhuo-Yu Xian

With a view to understanding extended-BMS symmetries in the framework of the $AdS_4/CFT_3$ correspondence, asymptotically AdS geometries are constructed with null impulsive shockwaves involving a discontinuity in superrotation parameters.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 David A. Lowe , David M. Ramirez

We give an interpretation of holography in the form of the AdS/CFT correspondence in terms of homotopy algebras. A field theory such as a bulk gravity theory can be viewed as a homotopy Lie or $L_{\infty}$ algebra. We extend this dictionary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-08 Christoph Chiaffrino , Talha Ersoy , Olaf Hohm

We propose a new consistency condition for the compatibility of a gravitational effective field theory in AdS with a dual holographic description in terms of a family of large-$N$ CFTs. Using large-$N$ factorization of correlation functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Nikolay Bobev , Hynek Paul , Filippo Revello

Gravity may be "locally localized" over a wide range of length scales on a d-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS) brane living inside AdS_{d+1}. In this paper we examine this phenomenon from the point of view of the holographic dual "defect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Ofer Aharony , Oliver DeWolfe , Daniel Z. Freedman , Andreas Karch

A defining feature of holographic dualities is that, along with the bulk equations of motion, boundary correlators at any given time t determine those of observables deep in the bulk. We argue that this property emerges from the bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Donald Marolf

Motivated by bulk reconstruction of smeared boundary operators, we study the Krylov complexity of local and non-local primary CFT$_d$ operators from the local bulk-to-bulk propagator of a minimally-coupled massive scalar field in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-12 Sergio E. Aguilar-Gutierrez , Hugo A. Camargo , Viktor Jahnke , Keun-Young Kim , Mitsuhiro Nishida

We consider two dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) with large central charge c in an excited state obtained by the insertion of an operator \Phi with large dimension \Delta_\Phi ~ O(c) at spatial infinities in the thermal state. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Justin R. David , Timothy J. Hollowood , Surbhi Khetrapal , S. Prem Kumar

The mapping between bulk supergravity fields in anti-de Sitter space and operators in the dual boundary conformal field theory usually relies heavily on the available global symmetries. In the present work, we study a generalization of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-01 David A Lowe , Shubho Roy

In the background of a charged AdS dilaton black hole, we investigate the movement of a self-graviting 3-brane and relevant holographic effects as the brane move close to the AdS boundary. The induced metric on brane corresponds to an exact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-20 Ai-chen Li

Holographic methods are used to investigate the low temperature limit, including quantum critical behavior, of strongly coupled 4-dimensional gauge theories in the presence of an external magnetic field, and finite charge density. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Eric D'Hoker , Per Kraus

In this paper we perform the Hamiltonian reduction of the action for three-dimensional Einstein gravity with vanishing cosmological constant using the Chern-Simons formulation and Bondi-van der Burg-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) boundary conditions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Wout Merbis , Max Riegler

We investigate the collapse of a spherical shell of matter in an anti-de Sitter space. We search for a holographic description of the collapsing shell in the boundary theory. It turns out that in the boundary theory it is possible to find…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Ulf H. Danielsson , Esko Keski-Vakkuri , Martin Kruczenski

We revisit the construction of self-dual field theory in 4l+2 dimensions using Chern-Simons theory in 4l+3 dimensions, building on the work of Witten. Careful quantization of the Chern-Simons theory reveals all the topological subtleties…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmitriy Belov , Gregory W. Moore

We investigate holographic Krylov complexity in fully top-down AdS$_3$ and AdS$_2$ supergravity backgrounds dual to two-dimensional linear-quiver SCFTs and one-dimensional conformal quantum mechanics. In these geometries, the warp factors,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-18 Ali Fatemiabhari , Horatiu Nastase , Carlos Nunez , Dibakar Roychowdhury

Using ambient space we develop a fully gauge and o(d,2) covariant approach to boundary values of AdS(d+1) gauge fields. It is applied to the study of (partially) massless fields in the bulk and (higher-order) conformal scalars, i.e.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Xavier Bekaert , Maxim Grigoriev

We revisit the holographic description of the near horizon geometry of the BTZ black hole in AdS$_3$ gravity, with a gravitational Chern-Simons term included. After a dimensional reduction of the three dimensional theory, we use the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Alejandra Castro , Beatrix Mühlmann

In this work, we study the holographic dual of the $\text{T}\bar{\text{T}}$ deformation following the mixed boundary condition proposal. We point out that a boundary term should be included in the gravity action in the holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-08 Jia Tian

We study holographic conformal anomalies and the corresponding $a$-theorem for Einstein gravity extended with Horndeski terms that involve up to and including linear curvature tensors. We focus on our discussion in $D=5$ bulk dimensions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-20 Yue-Zhou Li , H. Lu