pith. machine review for the scientific record. sign in

arxiv: hep-th/0209067 · v2 · submitted 2002-09-09 · ✦ hep-th

Recognition: unknown

Lecture Notes on Holographic Renormalization

Authors on Pith no claims yet
classification ✦ hep-th
keywords holographicsitterasymptoticallymethodrenormalizationspacetimespacetimesanti-de
0
0 comments X
read the original abstract

We review the formalism of holographic renormalization. We start by discussing mathematical results on asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes. We then outline the general method of holographic renormalization. The method is illustrated by working all details in a simple example: a massive scalar field on anti-de Sitter spacetime. The discussion includes the derivation of the on-shell renormalized action, of holographic Ward identities, anomalies and RG equations, and the computation of renormalized one-, two- and four-point functions. We then discuss the application of the method to holographic RG flows. We also show that the results of the near-boundary analysis of asymptotically AdS spacetimes can be analytically continued to apply to asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes. In particular, it is shown that the Brown-York stress energy tensor of de Sitter spacetime is equal, up to a dimension dependent sign, to the Brown-York stress energy tensor of an associated AdS spacetime.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.

Forward citations

Cited by 7 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score.

  1. Bound states and deconfinement from Romans supergravity with magnetic flux

    hep-th 2026-05 unverdicted novelty 7.0

    Holographic duals from Romans supergravity with Abelian magnetic flux yield confining 4D theories with a flux-driven zero-temperature deconfinement transition and a spectrum dominated by two nearly degenerate light sc...

  2. When AdS$_3$ Grows Hair: Boson Stars, Black Holes, and Double-Trace Deformations

    hep-th 2026-05 unverdicted novelty 7.0

    In AdS3 gravity with double-trace scalar boundary conditions, zero-frequency boson stars are the true ground state below the instability threshold, and hairy black holes carry higher entropy than BTZ at fixed mass and...

  3. Planar AdS multi-NUT spacetimes and Kaluza-Klein multi-monopoles

    hep-th 2026-04 unverdicted novelty 7.0

    Explicit planar AdS multi-NUT spacetimes are built via axionic scalars or quadratic gravity, plus planar Kaluza-Klein monopoles with varying magnetic charges.

  4. Holographic duality from a four-fermion interaction: emergent AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$, D-branes, and Einstein gravity

    hep-th 2026-03 unverdicted novelty 7.0

    The bosonic AdS3/CFT2 duality emerges from the Gross-Neveu model via higher-spin composites and fluctuations in competing spin-0 and spin-1 condensates that define the radial bulk coordinate.

  5. Inner Horizon Saddles and a Spectral KSW Criterion

    hep-th 2026-05 unverdicted novelty 6.0

    Inner horizon saddles supply the semiclassical correction -exp(A_inner/4G) to near-extremal black-hole entropy and motivate a spectral KSW criterion for well-defined one-loop effects around complex gravitational saddles.

  6. Uncool soft-wall transitions and gravitational waves

    hep-ph 2026-04 unverdicted novelty 5.0

    Soft-wall warped geometries yield rapid, mildly supercooled phase transitions whose TeV-scale gravitational wave signals are accessible to space-based interferometers.

  7. Quantum chaos and the holographic principle

    quant-ph 2026-04 unverdicted novelty 1.0

    A review of the chaos-assisted holographic correspondence linking the SYK model to 2D JT gravity, including the need for string theory corrections at fine quantum scales.