Year: 2024
Type: preprint
Abstract: We study a class of interface conformal field theories obtained by taking a large $N$ CFT and turning on a relevant double-trace deformation over half space. At low energies, this leads to a conformal interface separating two CFTs which are related by RG flow. We set up the large $N$ expansion of these models by employing a Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation over half space, and use this approach to compute some of the defect CFT data. We also calculate the free energy of the theory in the case of spherical interface, which encodes a conformal anomaly coefficient for even dimensional interface, and the analog of the $g$-function for odd-dimensional interface. These models have a dual description in terms of a gravitational theory in AdS where a bulk scalar field satisfies different boundary conditions on each half of the AdS boundary. We review this construction and show that the results of the large $N$ expansion on the CFT side are in precise agreement with the holographic predictions.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Institutions: Princeton University, New York University
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W4400601278