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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS A
Volume 16, Issue 5, Pages 740-749Publisher
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X0100386X
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We consider asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes in general dimensions. We review the origin of infrared divergences in the on-shell gravitational action, and the construction of the renormalized on-shell action by the addition of boundary counterterms. In odd dimensions, the renormalized on-shell action is not invariant under bulk diffeomorphisms that yield conformal transformations in the boundary (holographic Weyl anomaly). We obtain formulae for the gravitational stress energy tensor, defined as the metric variation of the renormalized on-shell action, in terms of coefficients in the asymptotic expansion of the metric near infinity. The stress energy tensor transforms anomalously under bulk diffeomorphisms broken by infrared divergences.
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