Tuesday, March 20, 2012

1111.5054 (Tomás Andrade et al.)

Boundary Conditions and Unitarity: the Maxwell-Chern-Simons System in
AdS_3/CFT_2
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Tomás Andrade, Juan I. Jottar, Robert G. Leigh
We consider the holography of the Abelian Maxwell-Chern-Simons (MCS) system in Lorentzian three-dimensional asymptotically-AdS spacetimes, and discuss a broad class of boundary conditions consistent with conservation of the symplectic structure. As is well-known, the MCS theory contains a massive sector dual to a vector operator in the boundary theory, and a topological sector consisting of flat connections dual to U(1) chiral currents; the boundary conditions we examine include double-trace deformations in these two sectors, as well as a class of boundary conditions that mix the vector operators with the chiral currents. We carefully study the symplectic product of bulk modes and show that almost all such boundary conditions induce instabilities and/or ghost excitations, consistent with violations of unitarity bounds in the dual theory.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.5054

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