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Surface terms as counterterms in the AdS-CFT correspondence
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We examine the recently proposed technique of adding boundary counterterms to the gravitational action for spacetimes which are locally asymptotic to anti--de Sitter spacetimes. In particular, we explicitly identify higher order counterterms, which allow us to consider spacetimes of dimensions $d<~7.$ As the counterterms eliminate the need of ``background subtraction'' in calculating the action, we apply this technique to study examples where the appropriate background was ambiguous or unknown: topological black holes, Taub-NUT-AdS and Taub-Bolt-AdS. We also identify certain cases where the covariant counterterms fail to render the action finite, and we comment on the dual field theory interpretation of this result. In some examples, the case of a vanishing cosmological constant may be recovered in a limit, which allows us to check results and resolve ambiguities in certain asymptotically flat spacetime computations in the literature.
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“Traditionally this accomplished either by the method of background subtraction, or, in the case of asymptotically AdS spacetimes including a local counterterm action [18,345].”
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“In holography the leading result for the partition function, valid at large central charge, which we denote generically by c , is given by an appropriately regularized version of the on-shell action of the Euclidean black hole or whichever other classical saddle dominates in the bulk, [55]”
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“As in holographic renormalization [17][18][19][20][21], a tower of higher-derivative corrections to the d-dimensional Einstein-Hilbert action are induced by the holographic cutoff CFT d .”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Emparan, R., Johnson, C. V., & Myers, R. C.
- Affiliations
- University of the Basque Country (ES)
- University of Kentucky (US)
- McGill University (CA)
- Venue
- Physical Review D
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1999-10-01
- Volume
- 60
- Issue
- 10
- ISSN
- 0556-2821 (ISSN-L)
- 1089-4918
- OpenAlex
- W2137060839
- Cited by
- 703
- References
- 49
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- FWCI
- 21.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields (publishedVersion)
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- RECERCAT (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya) (publishedVersion)
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- Hispana (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (9733173)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Relativity and Gravitational Theory
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Keywords
- AdS/CFT correspondence, counterterms, boundary counterterms, asymptotically AdS spacetimes, topological black holes, background subtraction, finite action, vanishing cosmological constant, asymptotically flat spacetimes, holography
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