Holographic RG Flow on the Defect and g-Theorem
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چکیده
We investigate relevant deformation and renormalization group flow in a defect conformal field theory from the point of view of holography. We construct a supersymmetric D5brane solution which represents an RG flow, by deforming anAdS4×S brane inAdS5×S. Our new solution corresponds to the mass deformation of the defect CFT. We also propose a candidate of g-function in the context of holography, and prove the g-theorem: the gfunction is monotonically non-increasing along the RG flow.
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