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Main Authors: Bason, Davide, Copetti, Christian, Di Pietro, Lorenzo, Ji, Ziming, Komatsu, Shota
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18392
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Table of Contents:
  • We introduce a regularized free energy $\mathcal{F}_{\text{AdS}}$ for massive quantum field theories (QFTs) on Anti-de Sitter space (AdS). We conjecture this quantity to be monotonic under the renormalization group (RG) flow induced by boundary perturbations, generalizing the known boundary $F$-theorem to non-conformal setups. We test this conjecture in several examples and provide a proof in two dimensions. We also discuss applications to long-range critical points, obtaining bounds on the sphere free energy of long- and short-range Ising models in three dimensions.