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arxiv: 0806.2867 · v1 · pith:GSIZFSTInew · submitted 2008-06-17 · ✦ hep-th

AdS/CFT duality for non-relativistic field theory

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keywords non-relativisticconformalcorrespondencedimensionsfieldgravitationaltheoriestheory
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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.

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