Seminar at CPHT 14:30 pm, Jan 23th Friday

Spaeker: Rodrigo Olea

Time: 14:30 pm, Jan 23th Friday  

Location: Salle de Conférence Louis Michel

Title: Holographic Weyl Anomaly and Kounterterms

Abstract: The addition of Kounterterms leads to a finite action for Einstein gravity for asymptotically AdS spaces with a conformally flat boundary. In that sense, it provides a partial renormalization scheme when compared to standard holographic techniques. However, Kounterterms method has the advantage that they can be written down in an arbitrary dimension. In this talk, we show how to extract holographic information on conformal anomalies from the variation of odd-dimensional Einstein-AdS plus Kounterterms.