Holographic renormalization for irrelevant operators and multi-trace counterterms

Feb, 2011
42 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 08 (2011) 093
e-Print:
Report number:
  • YITP-SB-01-02

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We investigate the structure of holographic renormalization in the presence of sources for irrelevant operators. By working perturbatively in the sources we avoid issues related to the non-renormalizability of the dual field theory. We find new classes of divergences which appear to be non-local on the gravity side. However in all cases a systematic renormalization procedure exists involving either standard local counterterms or new counterterms which may be interpreted as multi-trace counterterms in the field theory. The multi-trace counterterms reflect a more intricate relation between sources and the asymptotics of bulk fields.
Note:
  • 42 pages
  • Gauge-gravity correspondence
  • AdS-CFT Correspondence
  • renormalization: holography
  • nonlocal
  • duality
  • field theory: conformal
  • renormalization: on-shell
  • Einstein equation: vacuum
  • back reaction
  • Ward identity
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