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Main Authors: Harvey, William, Jensen, Kristan, Uzu, Takahiro
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13244
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author Harvey, William
Jensen, Kristan
Uzu, Takahiro
author_facet Harvey, William
Jensen, Kristan
Uzu, Takahiro
contents In this work we consider domain walls and end-of-the-world branes in AdS/CFT, holographically dual to codimension-one conformal defects and conformal boundaries respectively. In this setting there is an analogue of the ``bulk point'' singularity in boundary correlation functions, which we use to compare top-down and bottom-up constructions of these systems. For example, for a range of parameters the D3/D5 boundary CFT cannot be imitated by a tensionful end-of-the-world brane coupled to Einstein gravity, and in another range it can be modeled with a negative tension brane. Along the way we compute the central charge $b$ for the M2/M5 boundary CFT.
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spellingShingle Comparing top-down and bottom-up holographic defects and boundaries
Harvey, William
Jensen, Kristan
Uzu, Takahiro
High Energy Physics - Theory
In this work we consider domain walls and end-of-the-world branes in AdS/CFT, holographically dual to codimension-one conformal defects and conformal boundaries respectively. In this setting there is an analogue of the ``bulk point'' singularity in boundary correlation functions, which we use to compare top-down and bottom-up constructions of these systems. For example, for a range of parameters the D3/D5 boundary CFT cannot be imitated by a tensionful end-of-the-world brane coupled to Einstein gravity, and in another range it can be modeled with a negative tension brane. Along the way we compute the central charge $b$ for the M2/M5 boundary CFT.
title Comparing top-down and bottom-up holographic defects and boundaries
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13244