We propose a recipe — arguably the simplest — to compute the holographic type-B Weyl anomaly for general higher-derivative gravity in asymptotically AdS spacetimes. In 5 and 7 dimensions we identify a suitable basis of curvature invariants that allows to read off easily, without any further compu...
In this work we give an explicit construction for the vertex operators of massless states in the pure spinor superstring in a plane wave background. The construction is based on the observation that the full action can be divided in two parts, where the simpler one is based on a smaller coset and...
We present a first attempt to derive the full (type-A and type-B) Weyl anomaly of four dimensional conformal higher spin (CHS) fields in a holographic way. We obtain the type-A and type-B Weyl anomaly coefficients for the whole family of 4D CHS fields from the one-loop effective action for massle...
Acevedo, S.
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Aros, R.
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Bugini, F.
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Diaz, D.E.
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[On the Weyl anomaly of 4D conformal higher spins: a holographic approach]
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On the Weyl anomaly of 4D conformal higher spins: a holographic approach
We consider the vacuum expectation values of 1/2-BPS circular Wilson loops in N= 4 super Yang-Mills theory in the totally antisymmetric representation of the gauge group U(N) or SU(N). Localization and matrix model techniques provide exact, but rather formal, expressions for these expectation val...
Canazas Garay, A.F.
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Faraggi, A.
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Mück, W.
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[Antisymmetric Wilson loops in N= 4 SYM: from exact results to non-planar corrections]
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Antisymmetric Wilson loops in N= 4 SYM: from exact results to non-planar corrections
Chandia, O.
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Vallilo, B.C.
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[A superfield realization of the integrated vertex operator in an AdS 5 × S 5 background]
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A superfield realization of the integrated vertex operator in an AdS 5 × S 5 background
We compute the holographic stress tensor and the logarithmic energy-momentum tensor of Einstein-Weyl gravity at the critical point. This computation is carried out performing a holographic expansion in a bulk action supplemented by the Gauss-Bonnet term with a fixed coupling. The renormalization ...
It is shown that the notion of Conformal Mass can be defined within a given anti-de Sitter (AdS) branch of a Lovelock gravity theory as long as the corresponding vacuum is not degenerate. Indeed, conserved charges obtained by the addition of Kounterterms to the bulk action turn out to be proporti...
Arenas-Henriquez, G.
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Miskovic, O.
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Olea, R.
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[Vacuum degeneracy and Conformal Mass in Lovelock AdS gravity]
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Vacuum degeneracy and Conformal Mass in Lovelock AdS gravity
We study the one-loop effective action of certain classical type IIA string configurations in AdS4 × ℂℙ3. These configurations are dual to Wilson loops in the N= 6 U(N)k × U(N)−k Chern-Simons theory coupled to matter whose expectation values are known via supersymmetric localization. We compute t...
Aguilera-Damia, J.
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Faraggi, A.
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Pando Zayas, L.A.
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Rathee, V.
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Silva, G.A.
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[Toward precision holography in type IIA with Wilson loops]
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Toward precision holography in type IIA with Wilson loops
We exhibit the equivalence between the renormalized volume of asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AAdS) Einstein manifolds in four and six dimensions, and their renormalized Euclidean bulk gravity actions. The action is that of Einstein gravity, where the renormalization is achieved through the additi...