Field Theory of Interacting Boundary Gravitons
Stephen Ebert, Eliot Hijano, Per Kraus, Ruben Monten, Richard M. Myers
SciPost Phys. 13, 038 (2022) · published 29 August 2022
- doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.13.2.038
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Abstract
Pure three-dimensional gravity is a renormalizable theory with two free parameters labelled by $G$ and $\Lambda$. As a consequence, correlation functions of the boundary stress tensor in AdS$_3$ are uniquely fixed in terms of one dimensionless parameter, which is the central charge of the Virasoro algebra. The same argument implies that AdS$_3$ gravity at a finite radial cutoff is a renormalizable theory, but now with one additional parameter corresponding to the cutoff location. This theory is conjecturally dual to a $T\overline{T}$-deformed CFT, assuming that such theories actually exist. To elucidate this, we study the quantum theory of boundary gravitons living on a cutoff planar boundary and the associated correlation functions of the boundary stress tensor. We compute stress tensor correlation functions to two-loop order ($G$ being the loop counting parameter), extending existing tree level results. This is made feasible by the fact that the boundary graviton action simplifies greatly upon making a judicious field redefinition, turning into the Nambu-Goto action. After imposing Lorentz invariance, the correlators at this order are found to be unambiguous up to a single undetermined renormalization parameter.
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See all Organizations.- 1 Stephen Ebert,
- 2 Eliot Hijano,
- 1 Per Kraus,
- 1 Ruben Monten,
- 1 Richard M. Myers