AdS/CFT duality for non-relativistic field theory

Jun, 2008
19 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 03 (2009) 069
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We formulate a correspondence between non-relativistic conformal field theories (NRCFTs) in d-1 spatial dimensions and gravitational theories in AdS_{d+2} backgrounds with one compactified lightlike direction. The breaking of the maximal SO(2,d+1) symmetry of AdS_{d+2} to the non-relativistic conformal group arises from boundary conditions on bulk fields, without the need to introduce non-vacuum sources of energy-momentum. As a check of the proposal, we use the gravitational theory to reproduce the NRCFT state-operator correspondence between scaling dimensions of primary operators and energy eigenstates of the non-relativistic system placed in an external harmonic potential.
  • AdS/CFT correspondence
  • field theory: nonrelativistic
  • duality
  • correlation function
  • operator: algebra
  • potential: harmonic