Glue-on AdS holography for TT¯-deformed CFTs.

The T T ¯ deformation is a solvable irrelevant deformation whose properties depend on the sign of the deformation parameter μ. In particular, T T ¯ -deformed CFTs with μ < 0 have been proposed to be holographically dual to Einstein gravity where the metric satisfies Dirichlet boundary conditions at a finite cutoff surface. In this paper, we put forward a holographic proposal for T T ¯ -deformed CFTs with μ > 0, in which case the bulk geometry is constructed by gluing a patch of AdS₃ to the original spacetime. As evidence, we show that the T T ¯ trace flow equation, the spectrum on the cylinder, and the partition function on the torus and the sphere, among other results, can all be reproduced from bulk calculations in glue-on AdS₃. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]