Designer Gravity and Field Theory Effective Potentials
Journal Article
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· Physical Review Letters
- Department of Physics, UCSB, Santa Barbara, California 93106 (United States)
Motivated by the anti-de Sitter conformal field theory correspondence, we show that there is remarkable agreement between static supergravity solutions and extrema of a field theory potential. For essentially any function V({alpha}) there are boundary conditions in anti--de Sitter space so that gravitational solitons exist precisely at the extrema of V and have masses given by the value of V at these extrema. Based on this, we propose new positive energy conjectures. On the field theory side, each function V can be interpreted as the effective potential for a certain operator in the dual field theory.
- OSTI ID:
- 20696347
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 94, Issue 22; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.221301; (c) 2005 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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