Menagerie of AdS(2) boundary conditions

Author(s)

Grumiller, Daniel ; McNees, Robert ; Salzer, Jakob ; Valcarcel, Carlos ; Vassilevich, Dmitri

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: Journal of High Energy Physics; v. N/A, n. 10, p. 42-pg., 2017-10-30.

Abstract

We consider different sets of AdS2 boundary conditions for the JackiwTeitelboim model in the linear dilaton sector where the dilaton is allowed to fluctuate to leading order at the boundary of the Poincar'e disk. The most general set of boundary conditions is easily motivated in the gauge theoretic formulation as a Poisson sigma model and has an sl(2) current algebra as asymptotic symmetries. Consistency of the variational principle requires a novel boundary counterterm in the holographically renormalized action, namely a kinetic term for the dilaton. The on-shell action can be naturally reformulated as a Schwarzian boundary action. While there can be at most three canonical boundary charges on an equal-time slice, we consider all Fourier modes of these charges with respect to the Euclidean boundary time and study their associated algebras. Besides the (centerless) sl(2) current algebra we find for stricter boundary conditions a Virasoro algebra, a warped conformal algebra and a u(1) current algebra. In each of these cases we get one half of a corresponding symmetry algebra in three-dimensional Einstein gravity with negative cosmological constant and analogous boundary conditions. However, on-shell some of these algebras reduce to finite-dimensional ones, reminiscent of the on-shell breaking of conformal invariance in SYK. We conclude with a discussion of thermodynamical aspects, in particular the entropy and some Cardyology. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 16/03319-6 - Non perturbative methods in quantum theory and QFT and their application to actual physical problems
• Grantee: Dmitri Maximovitch Guitman
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants