Abstract: Holography for UV-incomplete gauge theories is important but poorly understood. A paradigmatic example is d = 4, N= 4 super Yang-Mills coupled to Nf quark flavors, which possesses a Landau pole at a UV scale ΛLP. The dual gravity solution exhibits a UV singularity at a finite proper distance along the holographic direction. Despite this, holographic renormalization can be fully implemented via analytic continuation to an AdS solution. The presence of a UV cut-off manifests itself in several interesting ways. At energies E ≪ ΛLP no pathologi...
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