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Holography for asymptotically locally Lifshitz spacetimes. (English) Zbl 1230.83018

Summary: We give a definition of asymptotically locally Lifshitz spacetimes, with boundary data appropriate for a non-relativistic theory on the boundary. Solutions satisfying these boundary conditions are constructed in an asymptotic expansion. We identify the boundary data with sources for dual field theory operators, and give a prescription for calculating the one-point functions of the field theory operators (including the stress tensor) in the presence of arbitrary sources. The divergences in these one-point functions can be cancelled by holographic renormalization, adding counterterms which are local functions of the boundary data.

MSC:

83C05 Einstein’s equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)
83C25 Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory
81T15 Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory
81T40 Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics
83C45 Quantization of the gravitational field
83D05 Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein’s, including asymmetric field theories