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Coset construction for duals of non-relativistic CFTs

  • 1. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 2. ROR icon Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
  • 3. ROR icon University of Tokyo
  • 4. ROR icon Kyoto University

Abstract

We systematically analyze backgrounds that are holographic duals to non-relativistic CFTs, by constructing them as cosets of the Schrödinger group and variants thereof. These cosets G/H are generically non-reductive and we discuss in generality how a metric on such spaces can be determined from a non-degenerate H-invariant symmetric two-form. Applying this to the d = 2 Schrödinger algebra, we reproduce the five-dimensional backgrounds proposed as duals of fermions at unitarity, and under reasonable physical assumptions, we demonstrate uniqueness of this background. The proposed gravity dual of the Lifshitz fixed-point, for which Galileian symmetry is absent, also fits into this organizational scheme and uniqueness of this background can also be shown.

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© 2009 SISSA. Received 12 April 2009, accepted for publication 24 April 2009. Published 11 May 2009. We would like to thank T. Azeyanagi, N. Bobev, S. Detournay, T. Dimofte, M. Fels, J. Gomis, A. Mikhailov, M. Mulligan, H. Ooguri and M. Sakaguchi for useful comments and discussions. We thank the KITP, Santa Barbara, for hospitality during some of this work. This work is supported by DOE grant DE-FG03-92-ER40701 (SSN and MY), by a Caltech John A. McCone Postdoctoral Fellowship (SSN), by the World Premier International Research Center Initiative, MEXT, Japan, by the JSPS fellowships for Young Scientists, and by Global COE Program "the Physical Sciences Frontier", MEXT, Japan (MY), and by the Grant-in-Aid for the Global COE Program "The Next Generation of Physics, Spun from Universality and Emergence", MEXT, Japan (KY). E-print number: 0903.4245

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Eprint ID
15543
DOI
10.1088/1126-6708/2009/05/038
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CaltechAUTHORS:20090901-154959509

Funding

Department of Energy (DOE)
DE-FG03-92-ER40701
John A. McCone Postdoctoral Fellowship
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

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2009-09-14
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