https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09960-6
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Gradient flow and holography from a local Wilsonian cutoff
CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, University Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay, France
Received:
12
October
2021
Accepted:
20
December
2021
Published online:
30
December
2021
We consider the vacuum partition function of a 4d scalar QFT in a curved background as function of bare marginal and relevant couplings. A local UV cutoff 
transforming under Weyl rescalings allows to construct Weyl invariant kinetic terms including Wilsonian cutoff functions. The local cutoff can be absorbed completely by a rescaling of the metric and the bare couplings. The vacuum partition function satisfies consistency conditions which follow from the Abelian nature of local redefinitions of the cutoff, and which differ from Weyl rescalings. These imply a gradient flow for beta functions describing the cutoff dependence of rescaled bare couplings. The consistency conditions allow to satisfy all but one Hamiltonian constraints required for a holographic description of the flow of bare couplings with the cutoff.
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