Conformal Lifshitz gravity from holography

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DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2012)010zbMATH Open1348.83074arXiv1112.5660OpenAlexW3098591203MaRDI QIDQ339203FDOQ339203


Authors: Tom Griffin, Petr Hořava, Charles M. Melby-Thompson Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 7 November 2016

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

Abstract: We show that holographic renormalization of relativistic gravity in asymptotically Lifshitz spacetimes naturally reproduces the structure of gravity with anisotropic scaling: The holographic counterterms induced near anisotropic infinity take the form of the action for gravity at a Lifshitz point, with the appropriate value of the dynamical critical exponent z. In the particular case of 3+1 bulk dimensions and z=2 asymptotic scaling near infinity, we find a logarithmic counterterm, related to anisotropic Weyl anomaly of the dual CFT, and show that this counterterm reproduces precisely the action of conformal gravity at a z=2 Lifshitz point in 2+1 dimensions, which enjoys anisotropic local Weyl invariance and satisfies the detailed balance condition. We explain how the detailed balance is a consequence of relations among holographic counterterms, and point out that a similar relation holds in the relativistic case of holography in AdS5. Upon analytic continuation, analogous to the relativistic case studied recently by Maldacena, the action of conformal gravity at the z=2 Lifshitz point features in the ground-state wavefunction of a gravitational system with an interesting type of spatial anisotropy.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5660




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