Lecture Notes on Holographic Renormalization

dc.creatorSkenderis, Kostas
dc.date2002-09-09
dc.date2002-10-11
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:49:27Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:49:27Z
dc.descriptionWe review the formalism of holographic renormalization. We start by discussing mathematical results on asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes. We then outline the general method of holographic renormalization. The method is illustrated by working all details in a simple example: a massive scalar field on anti-de Sitter spacetime. The discussion includes the derivation of the on-shell renormalized action, of holographic Ward identities, anomalies and RG equations, and the computation of renormalized one-, two- and four-point functions. We then discuss the application of the method to holographic RG flows. We also show that the results of the near-boundary analysis of asymptotically AdS spacetimes can be analytically continued to apply to asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes. In particular, it is shown that the Brown-York stress energy tensor of de Sitter spacetime is equal, up to a dimension dependent sign, to the Brown-York stress energy tensor of an associated AdS spacetime.
dc.description43 pages; typos corrected, references added
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0209067
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0209067
dc.identifierClass.Quant.Grav.19:5849-5876,2002
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/0264-9381/19/22/306
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/184223
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleLecture Notes on Holographic Renormalization
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