Published May 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Coset construction for duals of non-relativistic CFTs

  • 1. California Institute of Technology, 1200 E California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502 (Japan)

Description

We systematically analyze backgrounds that are holographic duals to non-relativistic CFTs, by constructing them as cosets of the Schroedinger group and variants thereof. These cosets G/H are generically non-reductive and we discuss in generality how a metric on such spaces can be determined from a non-degenerate H-invariant symmetric two-form. Applying this to the d = 2 Schroedinger algebra, we reproduce the five-dimensional backgrounds proposed as duals of fermions at unitarity, and under reasonable physical assumptions, we demonstrate uniqueness of this background. The proposed gravity dual of the Lifshitz fixed-point, for which Galileian symmetry is absent, also fits into this organizational scheme and uniqueness of this background can also be shown.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2009/05/038

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
5
Journal Issue
2009
Journal Page Range
p. 038
ISSN
1126-6708

INIS

Country of Publication
Italy
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
41111545
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; FERMIONS; GRAVITATION; HOLOGRAPHY; METRICS; SCHROEDINGER PICTURE; SPACE; SYMMETRY; UNITARITY
Descriptors DEC
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES