Holographic renormalization of foliation preserving gravity and trace anomaly

DOI10.1007/S10714-012-1427-3zbMATH Open1253.83009arXiv1203.1068OpenAlexW3103584473WikidataQ125575769 ScholiaQ125575769MaRDI QIDQ690989FDOQ690989

Yu Nakayama

Publication date: 29 November 2012

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: From the holographic renormalizationg group viewpoint, while the scale transformation plays a primary role in the duality by providing the extra dimension, the special conformal transformation seems to only play a secondary role. We, however, claim that the space-time diffeomorphism is crucially related to the latter. For its demonstration, we study the holographic renormalization group flow of a foliation preserving diffeomophic theory of gravity (a.k.a. space-time flipped Horava gravity). We find that the dual field theory, if any, is only scale invariant but not conformal invariant. In particular, we show that the holographic trace anomaly in four-dimension predicts the Ricci scalar squared term that would be incompatible with the Wess-Zumino consistency condition if it were conformal. This illustrates how the foliation preserving diffeomophic theory of gravity could be inconsistent with a theorem of the dual unitary quantum field theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1068

zbMATH Keywords

holographic renormalizationHorava gravitytrace anomaly

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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