Holographic Renormalization of 3D Minimal Massive Gravity

TL;DR

This paper develops a holographic renormalization procedure for 3D minimal massive gravity, providing explicit counterterms and Gibbons-Hawking terms to facilitate the calculation of stress tensor correlators in the dual field theory.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed holographic renormalization framework for 3D minimal massive gravity using the Chern-Simons-like formulation, including explicit counterterms and boundary terms.

Findings

Explicit Gibbons-Hawking and counterterms derived

Framework enables computation of stress tensor correlators

Facilitates holographic analysis of 3D massive gravity

Abstract

We study holographic renormalization of 3D minimal massive gravity using the Chern-Simons-like formulation of the model. We explicitly present Gibbons- Hawking term as well as all counterterms needed to make the action finite in terms of dreibein and spin-connection. This can be used to find correlation functions of stress tensor of holographic dual field theory.