Reversing Renormalization-Group Flows with AdS/CFT

Details Reversing Renormalization-Group Flows with AdS/CFT Reversing Renormalization-Group Flows with AdS/CFT

2007-05-31

arxiv.org/abs/0705.4642v1

JHEP 0805:055,2008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

11 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2008/05/055

For scalar fields in AdS with masses slightly above the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound, appropriate non-local boundary conditions can define a unitary theory. Such boundary conditions correspond to non-local deformations of the dual CFT, and generate a non-local renormalization-group flow. Nevertheless, a bulk analysis suggests that certain such flows lead to local CFTs in the infra-red. Since the flows are non-local, they can either increase or decrease the central charge of the CFT. In fact, given any local renormalization-group flow within a certain general class which leads from a UV theory (CFT_1) to an IR theory (CFT_2), we show that one can find such a non-local flow in which the endpoints are interchanged: the non-local theory flows from CFT_2 in the IR to CFT_1 in the UV. We work at large N, but the flows we consider involve quantum field effects in the bulk, corresponding to 1/N corrections in the dual theory.

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