Published January 15, 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

Boundary stress-energy tensor and Newton-Cartan geometry in Lifshitz holography

  • 1. The Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University,Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø (Denmark)
  • 2. Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam,Science Park 904, Postbus 94485, 1090 GL Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Description

For a specific action supporting z=2 Lifshitz geometries we identify the Lifshitz UV completion by solving for the most general solution near the Lifshitz boundary. We identify all the sources as leading components of bulk fields which requires a vielbein formalism. This includes two linear combinations of the bulk gauge field and timelike vielbein where one asymptotes to the boundary timelike vielbein and the other to the boundary gauge field. The geometry induced from the bulk onto the boundary is a novel extension of Newton-Cartan geometry that we call torsional Newton-Cartan (TNC) geometry. There is a constraint on the sources but its pairing with a Ward identity allows one to reduce the variation of the on-shell action to unconstrained sources. We compute all the vevs along with their Ward identities and derive conditions for the boundary theory to admit conserved currents obtained by contracting the boundary stress-energy tensor with a TNC analogue of a conformal Killing vector. We also obtain the anisotropic Weyl anomaly that takes the form of a Hořava-Lifshitz action defined on a TNC geometry. The Fefferman-Graham expansion contains a free function that does not appear in the variation of the on-shell action. We show that this is related to an irrelevant deformation that selects between two different UV completions

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2014)057; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/record/946

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2014
Journal Issue
01
Journal Page Range
p. 57
ISSN
1029-8479

INIS

Country of Publication
Germany
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
47036115
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
ANISOTROPY; GEOMETRY; GRAVITATION; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; WARD IDENTITY
Descriptors DEC
MATHEMATICS

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Copyright
Copyright (c) OPEN ACCESS, © The Authors
Notes
PUBLISHER-ID: JHEP01(2014)057; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:946
Funding organization
SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)