Questions tagged [ads-cft]
AdS/CFT is a special case of the holographic principle. It states that a quantum gravitating theory in Anti-de-Sitter (AdS) space is exactly equivalent to the gauge theory/Conformal Field Theory (CFT) on its boundary.
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Why Is There No Oscillator Representation for Operators in Planar ${\cal N}=4$ SYM Theory?
I'm studying the planar ${\cal N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills (SYM) theory and I'm curious about the representations of its operators, specifically the Hamiltonian and the dilatation operator. In many quantum ...
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What is the dual asymptotic spacetime of a CFT on a particular flat manifold?
According to AdS/CFT correspondence, the dual theory of a boundary CFT on flat spacetime is defined on an asymptotically AdS spacetime. The nature of the bulk spacetime depends on the topology of the ...
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How to derive Feffermann-Graham expansion for AdS Vaidya geometries?
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The Feffermann-Graham expansion for an asymptotically AdS spacetime [0] looks like Poincare AdS but with the flat space replaced by a more general metric i.e.
$$ds^2=\frac{1}{z^2}(g_{\mu \...
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Conformal compactification of AdS spacetime
In this paper https://homes.psd.uchicago.edu/~ejmartin/course/JournalClub/Basic_AdS-CFT_JournalClub.pdf, page 2, the authors state "The boundary of the conformal compactified $AdS_{d+1}$ is ...
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What are the implications of supersymmetry generators satisfying a majorana condition?
hoping to resolve some confusion I have about this paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9904017) regarding the holographic dual of a flow from ${\cal N}=4$ SYM to an ${\cal N}=1$ SUSY theory.
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Partial integration of the Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term
In https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.6334 on page 16 in their Eq. (5.21), they go from the equation
$$S_G+S_\chi\approx\int d^2x\sqrt{-g}XR+\int dt\sqrt{-\gamma}XK$$
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Bulk-to-bulk propagator in 3-point function in AdS-CFT correspondence. Trouble solving a PDE
I have encountered an issue in a PDE (A Green's function actually). I am solving it in $(d+1)$-dimensions and I use Poincare coordinates in AdS spacetime, meaning I have a dimension $z$ and I also ...
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Trouble in complex integral while calculating 2-point function in AdS-CFT correspondence [closed]
Upon calculating the 2-point function of a scalar, I ran in a problem in the final calculations. For reference, I am basiccaly following the methodology of https://www.sissa.it/tpp/phdsection/...
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How do hyperbolic tessellations like {7,3} in Anti de-Sitter space relate to our intuition of 3D space (or 4D structure if you include time)?
I just ran into the AdS/CFT correspondence, as I am looking at various use-cases of hyperbolic tessellations, specifically related to the pentagrid and heptagrid as defined by Maurice Margenstern in ...
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Replica wormholes in $AdS_5 \times S^5$ holography
I have a question about replica wormholes and the CFT ensembles in AdS/CFT. To make sure that my question isn't coming from a simple misunderstanding, I'll first sketch out my current understanding on ...
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Definition of “quasi-locality” in Wilsonian RG scheme
I’m studying about the holographic RG with this paper.
In that paper they say Wilsonian action expects quasi locality, but I’m not sure what “quasi-locality" exactly means.
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Is there any proposed holographic/thermodynamic interpretation of gravitational time dilation?
In AdS/CFT and holography more generally, many proposals of various degrees of plausibility have been made linking apparently physical notions on the bulk side to more information-theoretic, ...
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AdS$_3$ Geodesics' Length in ambient space as done in "Aspects of Holographic Entanglement Entropy"
I have been following the mentioned paper ("Aspects of Holographic Entanglement Entropy" hep-th/0605073 by Shinsei Ryu and Tadashi Takayanagi), trying to get into AdS/CFT. In section 6.2 ...
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What are single-, double- and multi-trace operators in AdS/CFT?
Can someone explain what are single-, double- and multi-trace operators are in AdS/CFT? I am a senior undergrad and only recently started studying AdS/CFT from TASI lectures and could not make much ...
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Why does no one add Einstein-Hilbert term to CFT in AdS/CFT?
As I work through AdS/CFT exercises, it struck me that there seemed no one doing the following.
Suppose we have a holographic CFT. By some reeconstruction method, we can write CFT operators in terms ...
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