Holography and the Weyl anomaly
Mans Henningson, Kostas Skenderis
TL;DR
This paper reviews the calculation of the Weyl anomaly in conformal field theories using holographic duality with higher-dimensional gravity theories.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive review of the holographic approach to computing Weyl anomalies in conformal field theories.
Findings
Validated the holographic method for Weyl anomaly calculation
Connected gravity theory properties with conformal field theory anomalies
Clarified the role of the (d+1)-dimensional gravity in anomaly computation
Abstract
We review our calculation of the Weyl anomaly for d-dimensional conformal field theories that have a description in terms of a (d + 1)-dimensional gravity theory.
Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.