Holographic Wilsonian RG Flow and Sliding Membrane Paradigm

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates the equivalence between two approaches to holographic RG flow, clarifying their relationship and providing formulas connecting Green functions and conductivity across different slices.

Contribution

It proves the equivalence of radial evolution and Wilsonian holographic RG flows and derives formulas relating Green functions and conductivities at arbitrary slices.

Findings

Proved the equivalence of two holographic RG flow approaches.

Derived formulas connecting Green functions and AC conductivity at arbitrary slices.

Showed the role of momentum continuity in the flow equations.

Abstract

We study the relations between two different approaches to the holographic Renormalization Group (RG) flow at the dual gravity level: One is the radial evolution of the classical equation of motion and the other is the flow equation given by the holographic Wilsonian RG coming from the cut off independence. Apparently, the two flows look different. We give general proofs that the two flows are actually equivalent. The role of the momentum continuity (MC) is essential. We show that MC together with cutoff independence gives the evolution equation of the boundary values. Equivalence of conductivity flows in two paradigm has been shown as an explicit example. We also get the connecting formula of Green functions and AC conductivity at arbitrary slice in terms of its value at horizon for various geometry backgrounds.