Physics Letters B (Apr 2020)

The boundary theory of a spinor field theory on the Bruhat-Tits tree

  • Feng Qu,
  • Yi-hong Gao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135331
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 803

Abstract

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For a spinor field theory on the Bruhat-Tits tree, we calculate the action and the partition function of its boundary theory by integrating out the interior of the Bruhat-Tits tree. We found that the boundary theory is very similar to a scalar field theory over p-adic numbers. Keywords: Anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence, Gauge/gravity correspondence, p-adic number, Spinor field, Bruhat-Tits tree