Torsional Newton-Cartan Geometry and Lifshitz Holography

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Authors
  • M.H. Christensen
  • J. Hartong
  • N.A. Obers
  • B. Rollier
Publication date 2014
Journal Physical Review D. Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology
Volume | Issue number 89 | 6
Pages (from-to) 061901(R)
Number of pages 5
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract
We obtain the Lifshitz UV completion in a specific model for z=2 Lifshitz geometries. We use a vielbein formalism which enables identification of all the sources as leading components of well-chosen bulk fields. We show that the geometry induced from the bulk onto the boundary is a novel extension of Newton-Cartan geometry with a specific torsion tensor. We explicitly compute all the vacuum expectation values (VEVs) including the boundary stress-energy tensor and their Ward identities. After using local symmetries or Ward identities the system exhibits 6+6 sources and VEVs. The Fefferman-Graham expansion exhibits, however, an additional free function which is related to an irrelevant operator whose source has been turned off. We show that this is related to a second UV completion.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.061901 (Final published version)
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