Published December 7, 2016 | Version v1
Journal article

Conformal Janus on Euclidean sphere

  • 1. B.W. Lee Center for Fields, Gravity & Strings, Institute for Basic Sciences,Daejeon 34047 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 2. Physics Department, University of Seoul,Seoul 02504 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 3. School of Physics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study,Seoul 02455 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 4. Center for Theoretical Physics, College of Physical Sciences, Sichuan University,Chengdu 610064 P.R. (China)
  • 5. School of Physics & Astronomy and Center for Theoretical Physics,Seoul National University,Seoul 08826 (Korea, Republic of)

Description

We interpret Janus as an interface in a conformal field theory and study its properties. The Janus is created by an exactly marginal operator and we study its effect on the interface conformal field theory on the Janus. We do this by utilizing the AdS/CFT correspondence. We compute the interface free energy both from leading correction to the Euclidean action in the dual gravity description and from conformal perturbation theory in the conformal field theory. We find that the two results agree each other and that the interface free energy scales precisely as expected from the conformal invariance of the Janus interface.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2016)025; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/record/18214

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2016
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
p. 25
ISSN
1029-8479

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Copyright (c) OPEN ACCESS, © The Authors
Notes
PUBLISHER-ID: JHEP12(2016)025; ARXIV:1605.00857; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:18214
Funding organization
SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)