Mixed boundary conditions and double-trace like deformations in Celestial holography and Wedge-like holography

Abstract

According to the AdS/CFT dictionary, adding a relevant double-trace deformation f ∫ O2 to a holographic CFT action is dual to imposing mixed Neumann/Dirichlet boundary conditions for the field dual to O in AdS. We observed similar behaviour in codimension-two flat space holographies. We consider deformations of boundary conditions in flat spacetimes under flat space codimension-two holographies, Celestial holography and Wedge-like holography. In the former Celestial-holographic approach, we imposed boundary conditions on initial and final bulk states in the scattering. We find that these non-trivial boundary conditions in the bulk induce “double deformations” on the Celestial CFT side, which can be understood as an analogy of double trace deformations in the usual AdS/CFT. We compute two-point bulk scattering amplitudes under the non-trivial deformed boundary conditions. In the latter Wedge-like holography approach, we consider mixed Neumann/Dirichlet boundary conditions on the null infinity of the light-cone. We find that this mixing induces a renormalization flow in the dual Wedge CFT side under the Wedge holography, as in the usual AdS/CFT. We argue that the discrepancy between the Wedge two-point function and the Celestial two-point function originates from a sensitivity of bulk massless fields to a regularization parameter to use the usual AdS/CFT techniques.