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arxiv: 0906.1255 · v2 · pith:4BSAVNTYnew · submitted 2009-06-06 · ✦ hep-th

Left-Right Asymmetric Holographic RG Flow with Gravitational Chern-Simons Term

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keywords flowgravitationalchern-simonstermdimensionalequationsfieldholographic
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We consider the holographic renormalization group (RG) flow in three dimensional gravity with the gravitational Chern-Simons term coupled to some scalar fields. We apply the canonical approach to this higher derivative case and employ the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism to analyze the flow equations of two dimensional field theory. Especially we obtain flow equations of Weyl and gravitational anomalies, and derive $c$-functions for left and right moving modes. Both of them are monotonically non-increasing along the flow, and the difference between them is determined by the coefficient of the gravitational Chern-Simons term. This is completely consistent with the Zamolodchikov's $c$-theorem for parity-violating two-dimensional quantum field theories.

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