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arxiv hep-th/0010138 v1 pith:Z67NKTI6 submitted 2000-10-17 hep-th

Asymptotically Anti-de Sitter spacetimes and their stress energy tensor

Kostas Skenderis This is my paper
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We consider asymtotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes in general dimensions. We review the origin of infrared divergences in the on-shell gravitational action, and the construction of the renormalized on-shell action by the addition of boundary counterterms. In odd dimensions, the renormalized on-shell action is not invariant under bulk diffeomorphisms that yield conformal transformations in the boundary (holographic Weyl anomaly). We obtain formulae for the gravitational stress energy tensor, defined as the metric variation of the renormalized on-shell action, in terms of coefficients in the asymptotic expansion of the metric near infinity. The stress energy tensor transforms anomalously under bulk diffeomorphisms broken by infrared divergences.

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