Asymptotic behavior and Hamiltonian analysis of anti-de Sitter gravity coupled to scalar fields

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DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2006.05.002zbMATH Open1123.83010arXivhep-th/0603185OpenAlexW2148916721WikidataQ59307646 ScholiaQ59307646MaRDI QIDQ875296FDOQ875296

Cristián Martínez, Jorge Zanelli, Ricardo Troncoso, Marc Henneaux

Publication date: 13 April 2007

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We examine anti-de Sitter gravity minimally coupled to a self-interacting scalar field in Dgeq4 dimensions when the mass of the scalar field is in the range mast2leqm2<mast2+l2. Here, l is the AdS radius, and mast2 is the Breitenlohner-Freedman mass. We show that even though the scalar field generically has a slow fall-off at infinity which back reacts on the metric so as to modify its standard asymptotic behavior, one can still formulate asymptotic conditions (i) that are anti-de Sitter invariant; and (ii) that allows the construction of well-defined and finite Hamiltonian generators for all elements of the anti-de Sitter algebra. This requires imposing a functional relationship on the coefficients a, b that control the two independent terms in the asymptotic expansion of the scalar field. The anti-de Sitter charges are found to involve a scalar field contribution. Subtleties associated with the self-interactions of the scalar field as well as its gravitational back reaction, not discussed in previous treatments, are explicitly analyzed. In particular, it is shown that the fields develop extra logarithmic branches for specific values of the scalar field mass (in addition to the known logarithmic branch at the B-F bound).


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0603185




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