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Main Authors: Wang, Yiru, Yang, Juanyi
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27641
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author Wang, Yiru
Yang, Juanyi
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Yang, Juanyi
contents We construct the exact Robin bulk-to-boundary propagator for a Breitenlöhner--Freedman scalar on AdS$_{d+1}$ and the BTZ black hole, realizing the double-trace RG flow between standard and alternate quantization geometrically as a one-parameter family of bulk boundary conditions. We derive the UV and IR chain expansions of the kernel intrinsically from the boundary-value problem, without an auxiliary-field decoupling, and identify a branch split at each order that separates the local data the boundary CFT observes from finite-bulk-depth structure visible only to bulk probes -- the part of $K_f$ that distinguishes holographic reconstruction from boundary calculation. On BTZ we obtain the closed-form Robin kernel and the corresponding family of quasinormal-mode trajectories, each connecting an alternate-quantization pole at $g=0$ to a standard one at $g\to\infty$. We locate an exceptional-point locus along this family at which two trajectories coalesce into a Jordan block, and show it acts as a non-Hermitian phase boundary for the double-trace flow itself: crossing it reorganizes the global pole-pairing topology of the spectrum. Unlike holographic EPs reached by analytic continuation in momentum or frequency, this transition lives on the interpolation between quantizations and is reachable at finite real momentum and temperature by tuning the physical Robin coupling.
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spellingShingle Robin holography in AdS and BTZ: double-trace RG flow and exceptional points
Wang, Yiru
Yang, Juanyi
High Energy Physics - Theory
We construct the exact Robin bulk-to-boundary propagator for a Breitenlöhner--Freedman scalar on AdS$_{d+1}$ and the BTZ black hole, realizing the double-trace RG flow between standard and alternate quantization geometrically as a one-parameter family of bulk boundary conditions. We derive the UV and IR chain expansions of the kernel intrinsically from the boundary-value problem, without an auxiliary-field decoupling, and identify a branch split at each order that separates the local data the boundary CFT observes from finite-bulk-depth structure visible only to bulk probes -- the part of $K_f$ that distinguishes holographic reconstruction from boundary calculation. On BTZ we obtain the closed-form Robin kernel and the corresponding family of quasinormal-mode trajectories, each connecting an alternate-quantization pole at $g=0$ to a standard one at $g\to\infty$. We locate an exceptional-point locus along this family at which two trajectories coalesce into a Jordan block, and show it acts as a non-Hermitian phase boundary for the double-trace flow itself: crossing it reorganizes the global pole-pairing topology of the spectrum. Unlike holographic EPs reached by analytic continuation in momentum or frequency, this transition lives on the interpolation between quantizations and is reachable at finite real momentum and temperature by tuning the physical Robin coupling.
title Robin holography in AdS and BTZ: double-trace RG flow and exceptional points
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27641