# Moving the CFT into the bulk with T(T)over-bar

## Author(s): McGough, Lauren; Mezei, Mark; Verlinde, Herman L.

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dc.contributor.authorMcGough, Lauren-
dc.contributor.authorMezei, Mark-
dc.contributor.authorVerlinde, Herman L.-
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-04T15:42:39Z-
dc.date.available2019-04-04T15:42:39Z-
dc.date.issued2018-04en_US
dc.identifier.citationMcGough, Lauren, Mezei, Mark, Verlinde, Herman. (2018). Moving the CFT into the bulk with T(T)over-bar. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, doi:10.1007/JHEP04(2018)010en_US
dc.identifier.issn1029-8479-
dc.identifier.urihttp://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/pr1vq4z-
dc.description.abstractRecent work by Zamolodchikov and others has uncovered a solvable irrelevant deformation of general 2D CFTs, defined by turning on the dimension 4 operator T (T) over bar, the product of the left- and right-moving stress tensor. We propose that in the holographic dual, this deformation represents a geometric cutoff that removes the asymptotic region of AdS and places the QFT on a Dirichlet wall at finite radial distance r = r(c) in the bulk. As a quantitative check of the proposed duality, we compute the signal propagation speed, energy spectrum, and thermodynamic relations on both sides. In all cases, we obtain a precise match. We derive an exact RG flow equation for the metric dependence of the effective action of the T (T) over bar deformed theory, and find that it coincides with the Hamilton Jacobi equation that governs the radial evolution of the classical gravity action in AdS.en_US
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dc.relation.ispartofJOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICSen_US
dc.rightsFinal published version. This is an open access article.en_US
dc.titleMoving the CFT into the bulk with T(T)over-baren_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.identifier.doidoi:10.1007/JHEP04(2018)010-
dc.date.eissued2018-04-03en_US
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