String Theory Seminars

Holographic stress tensor in higher derivative gravity

by Prof. Aninda Sinha (IISc, Bangalore)

Asia/Kolkata
A304 (Colaba Campus)

A304

Colaba Campus

Description
I will discuss how to compute the holographic stress tensor in an arbitrary higher derivative theory of gravity using the first law of entanglement. I will show that in the AdS/CFT dictionary the relation between the stress tensor and the relevant component of the Fefferman Graham metric is given through a B type trace anomaly. In even dimensions this in turn is related to the coefficient cT appearing in the two point function of stress tensors.