The a-theorem and conformal symmetry breaking in holographic RG flows

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2013)063zbMATH Open1342.81343arXiv1207.0006OpenAlexW2160330036MaRDI QIDQ302831FDOQ302831

Carlos Hoyos, Uri Kol, Shimon Yankielowicz, J. Sonnenschein

Publication date: 12 August 2016

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

Abstract: We study holographic models describing an RG flow between two fixed points driven by a relevant scalar operator. We show how to introduce a spurion field to restore Weyl invariance and compute the anomalous contribution to the generating functional in even dimensional theories. We find that the coefficient of the anomalous term is proportional to the difference of the conformal anomalies of the UV and IR fixed points, as expected from anomaly matching arguments in field theory. For any even dimensions the coefficient is positive as implied by the holographic a-theorem. For flows corresponding to spontaneous breaking of conformal invariance, we also compute the two-point functions of the energy-momentum tensor and the scalar operator and identify the dilaton mode. Surprisingly we find that in the simplest models with just one scalar field there is no dilaton pole in the two-point function of the scalar operator but a stronger singularity. We discuss the possible implications.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.0006

zbMATH Keywords

renormalization groupAdS-CFT correspondenceanomalies in field and string theoriesspontaneous symmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17)

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