Abstract
We perform a one-loop calculation of the vacuum energy of a tachyon field in anti–de Sitter space with boundary conditions corresponding to the presence of a double-trace operator in the dual field theory. Such an operator can lead to a renormalization group flow between two different conformal field theories related to each other by a Legendre transformation in the large N limit. The calculation of the one-loop vacuum energy enables us to verify the holographic c theorem one step beyond the classical supergravity approximation.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Journal | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue number | 6 |
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| State | Published - 2003 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)