Exotic RG flows from holography

2016/11/30 by Elias Kiritsis, Francesco Nitti, Leandro Silva Pimenta · 81 citations
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paper · pdf · doi:10.1002/prop.201600120

published in Fortschritte der Physik 65(2), 1600120 (Wiley) · 104 pages, 37 figures. One appendix and one figure added. Matches published version

openalex publication_date 2017/01/20 · arxiv created 2018/01/04 · arxiv updated 2018/01/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Holographic RG flows are studied in an Einstein-dilaton theory with a general potential. The superpotential formalism is utilized in order to characterize and classify all solutions that are associated with asymptotically AdS space-times. Such solutions correspond to holographic RG flows and are characterized by their holographic β-functions. Novel solutions are found that have exotic properties from a RG point-of view. Some have β-functions that are defined patch-wise and lead to flows where the β-function changes sign without the flow stopping. Others describe flows that end in non-neighboring extrema in field space. Finally others describe regular flows between two minima of the potential and correspond holographically to flows driven by the VEV of an irrelevant operator in the UV CFT.

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