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Holographic Renormalization Of Asymptotically Lifshitz Spacetimes, Robert A. Mcnees Iv, Robert Mann
Holographic Renormalization Of Asymptotically Lifshitz Spacetimes, Robert A. Mcnees Iv, Robert Mann
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A variational formulation is given for a theory of gravity coupled to a massive vector in four dimensions, with Asymptotically Lifshitz boundary conditions on the fields. For theories with critical exponent z=2 we obtain a well-defined variational principle by explicitly constructing two actions with local boundary counterterms. As part of our analysis we obtain solutions of these theories on a neighborhood of spatial infinity, study the asymptotic symmetries, and consider different definitions of the boundary stress tensor and associated charges. A constraint on the boundary data for the fields figures prominently in one of our formulations, and in that case …