Codimension Two Holography

A Note on Holographic Renormalization of Probe D-Branes

A great deal of progress has been recently made in the study of holography for non-conformal branes. Considering the near-horizon limit of backgrounds generated by such branes, we discuss the holographic renormalization of probe D-branes in these geometries. More specifically, we discuss in some detail systems with a codimension-one defect. For this class of systems, the mode which describes th...

A covariant approach to braneworld holography

Exact holography for cosmological branes in an AdS-Schwarzschild bulk was first introduced in hep-th/0204218. We extend this notion to include all codimension one branes moving in non-trivial bulk spacetimes. We use a covariant approach, and show that the bulk Weyl tensor projected on to the brane can always be traded in for “holographic” energy-momentum on the brane. More precisely, a brane mo...

Strings in homogeneous gravitational waves and null holography

Homogeneous gravitational wave backgrounds arise as infinite momentum limits of many geometries with a well-understood holographic description. General global aspects of these geometries are discussed. Using exact CFT techniques, strings in pp-wave backgrounds supported by a Neveu-Schwarz flux are quantized. As in Euclidean AdS3, spectral flow and associated long strings are shown to be crucial...

Lifting Problem in Codimension 2 and Initial Ideals

APPROXIMATE IDENTITY IN CLOSED CODIMENSION ONE IDEALS OF SEMIGROUP ALGEBRAS

Let S be a locally compact topological foundation semigroup with identity and Ma(S) be its semigroup algebra. In this paper, we give necessary and sufficient conditions to have abounded approximate identity in closed codimension one ideals of the semigroup algebra $M_a(S)$ of a locally compact topological foundationsemigroup with identity.