Holographic boundary actions in AdS₃/ CFT₂ revisited

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DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2021)218zbMATH Open1476.83140arXiv2108.01095WikidataQ125724844 ScholiaQ125724844MaRDI QIDQ825844FDOQ825844


Authors: Kevin Nguyen Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 17 December 2021

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

Abstract: The generating functional of stress tensor correlation functions in two-dimensional conformal field theory is the nonlocal Polyakov action, or equivalently, the Liouville or Alekseev-Shatashvili action. I review its holographic derivation within the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence, both in metric and Chern-Simons formulations. I also provide a detailed comparison with the well-known Hamiltonian reduction of three-dimensional gravity to a flat Liouville theory, and conclude that the two results are unrelated. In particular, the flat Liouville action is still off-shell with respect to bulk equations of motion, and simply vanishes in case the latter are imposed. The present study also suggests an interesting re-interpretation of the computation of black hole spectral statistics recently performed by Cotler and Jensen as that of an explicit averaging of the partition function over the boundary source geometry, thereby providing potential justification for its agreement with the predictions of a random matrix ensemble.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01095




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