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"Double-trace" Deformations, Boundary Conditions and Spacetime Singularities

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v3

Abstract

Double-trace deformations of the AdS/CFT duality result in a new perturbation expansion for string theory, based on a non-local worldsheet. We discuss some aspects of the deformation in the low energy gravity approximation, where it appears as a change in the boundary condition of fields. We relate unique features of the boundary of AdS to the worldsheet becoming non-local, and conjecture that non-local worldsheet actions may be generic in other classes of backgrounds.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0112264,
  title  = {"Double-trace" Deformations, Boundary Conditions and Spacetime Singularities},
  author = {Micha Berkooz and Amit Sever and Assaf Shomer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0112264},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

21 pages, 2 figures, harvmac. v2: minor changes, references added, version sent to JHEP. v3 minor corrections

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