Scale-Covariant Holography
Abstract
We explore a vast landscape of scale-covariant string backgrounds that arise from the backreaction of Dp-branes. In a convenient Weyl frame the metric has an AdS factor and the dilaton has a non-trivial profile. This structure provides a notion of scale covariance that facilitates a holographic analysis and provides a window into the dynamics of the dual strongly coupled non-conformal gauge theory. We present different classes of supergravity solutions of this kind and discuss their dual field theory interpretation. We find several new supersymmetric backgrounds arising from D2-branes by utilizing four-dimensional gauged supergravity, Dp-branes wrapped on compact manifolds, and infinite families constructed directly in ten dimensions. We construct holographic RG flows between some of the new supersymmetric backgrounds and compute the spectrum of low-lying local operators. Holography determines the form of observables such as the thermal free energy and scalar two-point functions, predictions which could be tested on the lattice.
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BibTeX
@misc{bobev2026scalecovariant,
title = {{Scale-Covariant Holography}},
author = {Nikolay Bobev and Pieter Bomans and Fridrik Freyr Gautason},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.38302},
eprint = {2609.38302},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38302},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Scale-Covariant Holography
AU - Nikolay Bobev
AU - Pieter Bomans
AU - Fridrik Freyr Gautason
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/29
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.38302
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38302
AB - We explore a vast landscape of scale-covariant string backgrounds that arise from the backreaction of Dp-branes. In a convenient Weyl frame the metric has an AdS factor and the dilaton has a non-trivial profile. This structure provides a notion of scale covariance that facilitates a holographic analysis and provides a window into the dynamics of the dual strongly coupled non-conformal gauge theory. We present different classes of supergravity solutions of this kind and discuss their dual field theory interpretation. We find several new supersymmetric backgrounds arising from D2-branes by utilizing four-dimensional gauged supergravity, Dp-branes wrapped on compact manifolds, and infinite families constructed directly in ten dimensions. We construct holographic RG flows between some of the new supersymmetric backgrounds and compute the spectrum of low-lying local operators. Holography determines the form of observables such as the thermal free energy and scalar two-point functions, predictions which could be tested on the lattice.
ER -