Holographic defect CFTs with Dirichlet end-of-the-world branes

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Main Authors: Nakayama, Haruki, Nishioka, Tatsuma
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author Nakayama, Haruki
Nishioka, Tatsuma
author_facet Nakayama, Haruki
Nishioka, Tatsuma
contents We construct a holographic model of defect conformal field theories (DCFTs) with defects of codimension greater than one. Our construction generalizes the AdS/BCFT model by anchoring the end-of-the-world brane on defects at the asymptotic AdS boundary and imposing Dirichlet boundary conditions for the metric on the brane. We compute the defect entropy and defect free energy and show that the defect $\mathcal{C}$-function is always non-negative. We further study holographic defect-localized RG flows triggered by a localized scalar field on the brane and show that the defect $\mathcal{C}$-theorem holds. We also verify that our model reproduces the expected forms of correlation functions in DCFTs.
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spellingShingle Holographic defect CFTs with Dirichlet end-of-the-world branes
Nakayama, Haruki
Nishioka, Tatsuma
High Energy Physics - Theory
Statistical Mechanics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We construct a holographic model of defect conformal field theories (DCFTs) with defects of codimension greater than one. Our construction generalizes the AdS/BCFT model by anchoring the end-of-the-world brane on defects at the asymptotic AdS boundary and imposing Dirichlet boundary conditions for the metric on the brane. We compute the defect entropy and defect free energy and show that the defect $\mathcal{C}$-function is always non-negative. We further study holographic defect-localized RG flows triggered by a localized scalar field on the brane and show that the defect $\mathcal{C}$-theorem holds. We also verify that our model reproduces the expected forms of correlation functions in DCFTs.
title Holographic defect CFTs with Dirichlet end-of-the-world branes
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Statistical Mechanics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22270