Forbidden landscape from holography

Yu Nakayama
2009 Journal of High Energy Physics  
We present a class of field configurations that are forbidden in the quantum gravity because of inconsistency in the dual field theory from holography. Scale invariant but non-conformal field theories are impossible in (1+1) dimension, and so should be the corresponding gravity dual. In particular, the "spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking" models and the "ghost condensation" models, which are well-studied in phenomenology literatures, are forbidden in any consistent quantum theories of
more » ... in (1+2) dimension since they predict such inconsistent field configurations.
doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2009/11/061 fatcat:nwli2j5tafabrhihbvhzxpc5hi