Holographic RG flow and the Quantum Effective Action
Abstract
The calculation of the full (renormalized) holographic action is undertaken in general Einstein-scalar theories. The appropriate formalism is developed and the renormalized effective action is calculated up to two derivatives in the metric and scalar operators. The holographic RG equations involve Ricci flow for the space-time metric as well as the standard -function flow for scalar operators. Several examples are analyzed and the effective action is calculated. A set of conserved quantities of the holographic flow is found, whose interpretation is not yet understood.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1401.0888,
title = {Holographic RG flow and the Quantum Effective Action},
author = {Elias Kiritsis and Wenliang Li and Francesco Nitti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.0888},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
85 pages, 6 figures. v2: three subsections and one appendix added with a more detailed discussion of local RG transformations, RG invariance of the renormalized action, trace identities and scheme dependence; discussion added about the distinction between RG-invariant and RG scale-dependent operators; details added in sections 6 and 7; typos corrected, references added