Holographic renormalization of gravity in little string theory duals
Donald Marolf; Amitabh Virmani; Donald Marolf; Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9530, U.S.A.; Amitabh Virmani; Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9530, U.S.A.
Журнал:
Journal of High Energy Physics
Дата:
2007-06-01
Аннотация:
We perform a holographic renormalization of gravity duals to little string theories. In particular, we construct counterterms which yield a well-defined type II action for NS-sector linear dilaton backgrounds. Our methods are based on a similar recent construction in asymptotically flat spacetimes, and our work demonstrates in detail the parallels between asymptotically flat and linear dilaton boundary conditions. The counterterms guarantee that (i) the on-shell action is finite and (ii) asymptotically linear dilaton solutions are stationary points of the action under all boundary condition preserving variations. We use the resulting action to compute a boundary stress tensor and the associated conserved charges.
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