Holographic RG flows on curved manifolds and the F-theorem

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2019)055MaRDI QIDQ1735566zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Jewel K. Ghosh, Elias Kiritsis, F. Nitti, Lukas T. Witkowski

Publication date 28 March 2019

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12318

zbMATH Keywords

AdS-CFT correspondencerenormalization group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

Abstract: We study $F$-functions in the context of field theories on $S^3$ using gauge-gravity duality, with the radius of $S^3$ playing the role of RG scale. We show that the on-shell action, evaluated over a set of holographic RG flow solutions, can be used to define good $F$-functions, which decrease monotonically along the RG flow from the UV to the IR for a wide range of examples. If the operator perturbing the UV CFT has dimension $Delta>3/2$ these $F$-functions correspond to an appropriately renormalized free energy. If instead the perturbing operator has dimension $Delta<3/2$ it is the quantum effective potential, i.e. the Legendre transform of the free energy, which gives rise to good $F$-functions. We check that these observations hold beyond holography for the case of a free fermion on $S^3$ ($Delta=2$) and the free boson on $S^3$ ($Delta=1$), resolving a long-standing problem regarding the non-monotonicity of the free energy for the free massive scalar. We also show that for a particular choice of entangling surface, we can define good $F$-functions from an entanglement entropy, which coincide with certain $F$-functions obtained from the on-shell action.

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