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We generalize Penrose’s notion of conformal infinity of spacetime, to situations with anisotropic scaling. This is relevant not only for Lifshitz-type anisotropic gravity models, but also in standard general relativity and string theory, for spacetimes exhibiting a natural asymptotic anisotropy. Examples include the Lifshitz and Schrödinger spaces (proposed as AdS/CFT duals of nonrelativistic field theories), warped AdS 3, and the near-horizon extreme Kerr geometry. The anisotropic conformal boundary appears crucial for resolving puzzles of holographic renormalization in such spacetimes.
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We wish to thank Stéphane Detournay for useful discussions. The results presented in this paper were announced by one of us (PH) at Strings 2009 in Rome (June 2009), and at the Quantum Criticality and AdS/CFT Correspondence Miniprogram at KITP, Santa Barbara (July 2009); PH wishes to thank the orgainzers for their hospitality. This work has been supported by NSF Grants PHY-0555662 and PHY-0855653, DOE Grant DE-AC02-05CH11231, and by the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics.
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Hořava, P., Melby-Thompson, C.M. Anisotropic conformal infinity. Gen Relativ Gravit 43, 1391–1400 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-010-1117-y
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