Boundary Conditions and Dualities: Vector Fields in AdS/CFT

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2006-06-13

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0606113v3

JHEP0611:085,2006

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

26 pages, significant references added

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2006/11/085

In AdS, scalar fields with masses slightly above the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound admit a variety of possible boundary conditions which are reflected in the Lagrangian of the dual field theory. Generic small changes in the AdS boundary conditions correspond to deformations of the dual field theory by multi-trace operators. Here we extend this discussion to the case of vector gauge fields in the bulk spacetime using the results of Ishibashi and Wald [hep-th/0402184]. As in the context of scalar fields, general boundary conditions for vector fields involve multi-trace deformations which lead to renormalization-group flows. Such flows originate in ultra-violet CFTs which give new gauge/gravity dualities. At least for AdS4/CFT3, the dual of the bulk photon appears to be a propagating gauge field instead of the usual R-charge current. Applying similar reasoning to tensor fields suggests the existence of a duality between string theory on AdS4 and a quantum gravity theory in three dimensions.

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