Lecture notes on holographic renormalization

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DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/22/306zbMATH Open1044.83009arXivhep-th/0209067OpenAlexW2153274301MaRDI QIDQ4786969FDOQ4786969


Authors: Kostas Skenderis Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 2002

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We review the formalism of holographic renormalization. We start by discussing mathematical results on asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes. We then outline the general method of holographic renormalization. The method is illustrated by working all details in a simple example: a massive scalar field on anti-de Sitter spacetime. The discussion includes the derivation of the on-shell renormalized action, of holographic Ward identities, anomalies and RG equations, and the computation of renormalized one-, two- and four-point functions. We then discuss the application of the method to holographic RG flows. We also show that the results of the near-boundary analysis of asymptotically AdS spacetimes can be analytically continued to apply to asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes. In particular, it is shown that the Brown-York stress energy tensor of de Sitter spacetime is equal, up to a dimension dependent sign, to the Brown-York stress energy tensor of an associated AdS spacetime.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0209067




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