Scale Invariance and the AdS/CFT Correspondence

Abstract

Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we show that the Anti-de Sitter (AdS) rotating (Kerr) black holes in five and seven dimensions provide us with examples of non-trivial field theories which are scale, but not conformally invariant. This is demonstrated by our computation of the actions and the stress-energy tensors of the four and six dimensional field theories residing on the boundary of these Kerr-AdS black holes spacetimes.

3 pages. LaTeX, IJMP style. Contribution to proceedings of DPF 2000, held at Ohio State U

References in corpus (3)

• Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity
• The Gravitational Action in Asymptotically AdS and Flat Spacetimes
• Conformal anomaly of (2,0) tensor multiplet in six dimensions and AdS/CFT correspondence

Cited by in corpus (4)

• Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories
• Scale without Conformal Invariance at Three Loops
• No Forbidden Landscape in String/M-theory
• Scale without Conformal Invariance in bottom-up Holography