DRSN VII: Drifted Holographic Geometry and Spectral Gauge–Gravity Duality (De Rerum Spectrale Natura, Report VII, Version 2.0)

DRSN VII: DRIFTED HOLOGRAPHIC GEOMETRY AND SPECTRAL GAUGE–GRAVITY DUALITY De Rerum Spectrale Natura series REPORT VII (Version 2.0) GDs J. Pinho-da-Cruz Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Aveiro September 2025 • Holography is reformulated as a spectral correspondence between bulk and boundary sectors of a single drifted Dirac operator, rather than as a background-dependent dictionary. • Boundary theories arise as projected Dirac sectors defined by spectral projectors, yielding an intrinsic operatorial notion of boundary degrees of freedom. • The holographic radial direction is interpreted as spectral drift / RG flow, providing an operator-theoretic realisation of renormalisation-group evolution. • Bulk–boundary duality is encoded in a single spectral action with consistency conditions expressed through commutators and index-theoretic invariants. Spectral Holography from Drift Geometry: Gauge–Gravity Duality, RG Flow and Operator Correspondence J. Pinho-da-Cruz 1, ∗ 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro, Portugal We formulate holography and gauge–gravity correspondence within the framework of drifted spectral geometry. Bulk and boundary theories are described as distinct spectral sectors of a single Dirac operator, related by projection and controlled drift deformation. The radial holographic direction is interpreted as a spectral flow, providing an operatorial realisation of renormalisation group evolution. This approach yields a unified, background-independent formulation of holography, bridging AdS/CFT, brane constructions, and noncommutative geometry. Keywords: Spectral Action; Holography; Gauge–Gravity Correspondence; Renormalisation Group Flow; Drift Geometry; AdS/CFT; Noncommutative Geometry. ∗jp[email protected] 3 CONTENTS I. Introduction 5 II. Spectral Holography Framework 6 A. Bulk and Boundary as Spectral Sectors 6 B. Radial Direction as Spectral Flow 6 C. Consistency Conditions 6 III. Spectral Renormalisation Group Flow and Boundary Dynamics 7 A. Spectral Flow as RG Evolution 7 B. Beta Functions from Spectral Variations 7 C. Energy Scales and Spectral Cutoff 8 D. Boundary Dynamics and Operatorial Running 8 E. Structural Summary 8 IV. Spectral Bulk–Boundary Dictionary and AdS/CFT Correspondence 8 A. Bulk Operators and Boundary Observables 9 B. Sources, States, and Generating Functionals 9 C. AdS/CFT as a Spectral Equivalence 9 D. Matching Conditions and Anomalies 10 E. Dictionary Summary 10 F. Scope and Implications 10 V. Examples, Consistency Checks, and Applications 10 A. AdS–Like Geometries and Spectral Boundaries 11 B. Consistency Check: Matching of Degrees of Freedom 11 C. Entanglement and Area Laws 11 D. Application to Brane-Induced Holography 12 E. Structural Summary 12 F. Outlook on Applications 12 VI. Conclusions, Outlook, and Future Directions 13 A. Summary of the Spectral Holography Framework 13 B. Conceptual Advances 13 4 C. Relation to the DRSN Programme 13 D. Future Directions 14 Appendices 15 A. Spectral Projections and Boundary Stability 15 B. Spectral Interpretation of Entanglement 15 References 16 5 I. INTRODUCTION Holography has emerged as a central paradigm in modern theoretical physics, asserting an equivalence between gravitational dynamics in a bulk spacetime and quantum field theories living on its boundary. The most prominent realisation of this idea is the AdS/CFT correspondence, where bulk gravity in anti–de Sitter space is dual to a conformal field theory defined on its boundary [ 1 , 2 ]. Despite its success, conventional holography relies heavily on background-specific constructions, asymptotic boundary conditions, and string-theoretic embeddings. In particular, the dictionary between bulk and boundary degrees of freedom is often introduced in a model-dependent manner. In the present report we propose a reformulation of holography as a purely spectral phenomenon. Building on the drifted Dirac framework developed in the previous reports, we show that bulk and boundary theories arise naturally as different spectral sectors of a single operatorial structure. Projections define boundary degrees of freedom, while the drift parameter generates a controlled spectral flow interpretable as renormalisation group evolution. This perspective unifies holography, brane dynamics, and compactification within a single spectral action, eliminating the need for separate bulk and boundary postulates. The operator-theoretic framework of drifted spectral geometry developed in DRSN I–VI establishes the analytic and structural foundations on which the present holographic construction is built, including bounded similarity deformations, exact heat-kernel factorisation, compactification control, and the spectral brane sector [3–8]. About this report. This work constitutes Report VII of the DRSN series (De Rerum Spectrale Natura), a sequence of independent but thematically unified studies on spectral drift geometry. The DRSN series is developed within an open research community on spectral geometry and fundamental physics; related materials, preprints and versioned updates are archived at https://zenodo.org/communities/dsrn/. The present report develops the holographic layer of drifted spectral geometry. Holography is formulated as a spectral correspondence between bulk and boundary sectors of a single drifted Dirac operator, with boundary theories arising as projected Dirac subsectors and the holographic radial direction realised as spectral drift / RG flow. The emphasis is structural and analytic: we formulate bulk–boundary consistency conditions, an operatorial RG interpretation, and a spectral analogue of the GKPW generating functional. No new phenomenological claims are made. Subsequent reports will build on this holographic layer to develop applications to non-AdS settings, quantum-information measures, and drifted gauge–gravity dualities. 6 II. SPECTRAL HOLOGRAPHY FRAMEWORK A. Bulk and Boundary as Spectral Sectors Let Ds be a drifted Dirac operator acting on a bulk Hilbert space Hbulk . A boundary theory is defined by a spectral projection P∂onto a subspace H∂⊂ Hbulk. The induced boundary operator D∂:= P∂DsP∂(II.1) encodes the dynamics of boundary degrees of freedom. This construction is rooted in the spectral action principle and noncommutative spectral geometry [9–11]. Definition 1 (Spectral Boundary).A holographic boundary is defined by a projection P∂ such that H∂=P∂Hbulk, with dynamics governed by D∂. B. Radial Direction as Spectral Flow The drift parameter s generates a family of operators Ds . We interpret this family as defining a spectral flow connecting bulk and boundary descriptions. In this picture, the holographic radial coordinate is identified with the drift parameter, and evolution in s corresponds to renormalisation group flow in the boundary theory. Bulk Dirac Ds Spectral Flow (s) Boundary Dirac D∂ FIG. 1. Spectral interpretation of holography: bulk and boundary are related by projection and drift-induced spectral flow. C. Consistency Conditions Consistency of spectral holography requires approximate commutativity [D2 s, P∂]≈0,(II.2) 7 ensuring that boundary dynamics is stable under bulk evolution. This condition plays the role of holographic matching and renormalisation conditions in conventional formulations. Remark 2. The holographic dictionary is encoded operatorially rather than postulated. III. SPECTRAL RENORMALISATION GROUP FLOW AND BOUNDARY DYNAMICS A central advantage of the spectral holography framework is that renormalisation group (RG) flow acquires a precise operatorial interpretation. Rather than being introduced as a scale-dependent deformation of a boundary action, RG evolution arises naturally as spectral flow generated by the drifted Dirac operator. A. Spectral Flow as RG Evolution Let Ds denote the drifted bulk Dirac operator. The family {Ds}s∈R defines a continuous spectral flow, with d dsDs= [Ds, φ],(III.1) where φ is the drift generator. When restricted to the boundary sector, this induces an evolution equation for the boundary operator d dsD∂=P∂[Ds, φ]P∂.(III.2) This equation provides an intrinsic definition of RG flow for the boundary theory. B. Beta Functions from Spectral Variations The spectral action associated with the boundary operator, S∂(s) = TrH∂(f(D∂/Λ)) ,(III.3) inherits s–dependence from the bulk drift. Differentiating with respect to syields d dsS∂(s) = TrH∂f′(D∂/Λ) 1 Λ dD∂ ds ,(III.4) which plays the role of a spectral beta function. Fixed points of the RG flow correspond to stationary spectral configurations satisfying d dsS∂(s)=0.(III.5) Remark 3. Conformal boundary theories correspond to spectral fixed points of the drift flow. 8 C. Energy Scales and Spectral Cutoff In the spectral action formalism, the cutoff scale Λplays the role of an ultraviolet regulator. The drift parameter s acts as an independent scale variable, controlling how spectral modes are redistributed between bulk and boundary. The combined dependence on ( s, Λ) naturally encodes multi-scale RG behaviour. D. Boundary Dynamics and Operatorial Running Boundary coupling constants are encoded in the lower-order terms of the boundary Dirac operator. As s varies, these terms evolve according to the induced spectral flow, yielding running couplings without introducing separate renormalisation prescriptions. This operatorial running unifies geometric and quantum aspects of RG evolution. E. Structural Summary Spectral Object RG Interpretation Drift parameter sRG scale Spectral flow Ds(s)RG trajectory Stationary spectrum Fixed point Boundary projection Effective field theory TABLE I. Spectral interpretation of renormalisation group flow. The spectral RG framework thus provides a background-independent and operatorially exact formulation of boundary dynamics, forming the backbone of spectral holography. IV. SPECTRAL BULK–BOUNDARY DICTIONARY AND ADS/CFT CORRESPONDENCE We now formulate the bulk–boundary dictionary in purely spectral terms. In contrast with conventional holographic constructions, where the dictionary is introduced via asymptotic expansions and boundary conditions, the present framework encodes the correspondence operatorially through projections, commutators, and spectral invariants. 9 A. Bulk Operators and Boundary Observables Let Ds be the drifted bulk Dirac operator acting on Hbulk , and P∂ the projection defining the boundary sector. Bulk observables correspond to spectral functionals of Ds , while boundary observables are obtained by restriction, O∂=P∂Obulk(Ds)P∂.(IV.1) Correlation functions on the boundary are therefore traces over H∂, ⟨O∂1· · · O∂n⟩= TrH∂(O∂1· · · O∂n),(IV.2) providing a direct operatorial definition of boundary correlators. B. Sources, States, and Generating Functionals In conventional AdS/CFT, boundary sources couple to bulk fields evaluated at the boundary. In the spectral framework, sources correspond to perturbations of the boundary operator, D∂−→ D∂+J∂,(IV.3) where J∂ is a bounded operator acting on H∂ . The generating functional of boundary correlators is then defined spectrally by Z∂[J∂] = exp−TrH∂fD∂+J∂ Λ.(IV.4) Functional derivatives with respect to J∂ reproduce boundary correlation functions, establishing the spectral analogue of the GKPW prescription. C. 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