Banishing AdS ghosts with a UV cutoff

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2012)011zbMATH Open1348.83029arXiv1112.3085OpenAlexW2081797716WikidataQ62398121 ScholiaQ62398121MaRDI QIDQ339249FDOQ339249

Donald Marolf, Tomás Andrade, Thomas Faulkner

Publication date: 7 November 2016

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

Abstract: A recent attempt to make sense of scalars in AdS with "Neumann boundary conditions" outside of the usual BF-window $-(d/2{)}^2<m^2{l}^2<-(d/2{)}^2+1$ led to pathologies including (depending on the precise context) either IR divergences or the appearance of ghosts. Here we argue that such ghosts may be banished by imposing a UV cutoff. It is also possible to achieve this goal in certain UV completions. An example is the above AdS theory with a radial cutoff supplemented by particular boundary conditions on the cutoff surface. In this case we explicitly identify a region of parameter space for which the theory is ghost free. At low energies, this theory may be interpreted as the standard dual CFT (defined with "Dirichlet" boundary conditions) interacting with an extra scalar via an irrelevant interaction. We also discuss the relationship to recent works on holographic fermi surfaces and quantum criticality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3085

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zbMATH Keywords

gauge-gravity correspondenceAdS-CFT correspondence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20)

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