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The BRST-invariant effective action of shadows, conformal fields, and the AdS/CFT correspondence

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We study the completely symmetric, arbitrary-spin, massless and massive fields propagating in anti-de Sitter space. Using the de Donder-type gauge for such fields, we obtain a Lagrangian invariant under the global BRST transformations. We use this Lagrangian to calculate the vacuum partition function and the effective action. We show that the effective action calculated for the nonnormalizable solution of the field equations of motion with the Dirichlet boundary value problem coincides with the BRST-invariant effective action of a shadow. In the case of massless fields, the logarithmic divergence of the effective action results in a simple expression for the BRST-invariant Lagrangian of an arbitrary-spin conformal field. We show that the Nakanishi-Lautrup fields appearing in the BRST-invariant action of conformal fields can be interpreted geometrically as the boundary values of massless fields in anti-de Sitter space.

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Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 181, No. 3, pp. 495–514, December, 2014.

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Metsaev, R.R. The BRST-invariant effective action of shadows, conformal fields, and the AdS/CFT correspondence. Theor Math Phys 181, 1548–1565 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11232-014-0235-1

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