Obstruction tensors in Weyl geometry and holographic Weyl anomaly
Recently a generalization of the Fefferman-Graham gauge for asymptotically locally anti–de Sitter spacetimes, called the Weyl-Fefferman-Graham (WFG) gauge, has been proposed. It was shown that the WFG gauge induces a Weyl geometry on the conformal boundary. The Weyl geometry consists of a metric and a Weyl connection. Thus, this is a useful setting for studying dual field theories with background Weyl symmetry. Working in the WFG formalism, we find the generalization of obstruction tensors, which are Weyl-covariant tensors that appear as poles in the Fefferman-Graham expansion of the bulk metric for even boundary dimensions. We see that these Weyl-obstruction tensors can be used as building blocks for the Weyl anomaly of the dual field theory. We then compute the Weyl anomaly for 6d and 8d field theories in the Weyl-Fefferman-Graham formalism and find that the contribution from the Weyl structure in the bulk appears as cohomologically trivial modifications. Expressed in terms of the Weyl-Schouten tensor and extended Weyl-obstruction tensors, the results of the holographic Weyl anomaly up to 8d also reveal hints on its expression in any dimension.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0015655
- OSTI ID:
- 1837727
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1979985
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review D, Journal Name: Physical Review D Vol. 104 Journal Issue: 12; ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical SocietyCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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