Abstract
Asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes with Poincaré invariance along the boundary can describe, via the AdS-CFT correspondence, either relevant deformations of a conformal field theory or non-conformal vacuum states. I consider examples of both types constructed within the framework of five-dimensional gauged supergravity. I explain the proof and motivation of a gravitational 'c-theorem' which is independent of dimension. I show how one class of examples can be elevated to ten-dimensional geometries involving distributions of parallel D3-branes. For these cases some peculiar properties of two-point functions emerge, and I close with speculations on their physical origin.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1081-1092 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Classical and Quantum Gravity |
Volume | 17 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 7 2000 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)