Notice that we have implemented the gauge l
0
(r) = 1. The next terms in the UV expansion
of the solutions read
l
1
(r) = A
0
e
r
+ A
k
e
(1−k)r
, l
2
(r) = B
0
e
r
+ B
k
e
(1−k)r
, l
3
(r) = C
0
e
r
+ C
k
e
(1−k)r
, (2.5)
Φ(r) =
α
(A
0
B
0
C
0
)
1/3
e
−r
+
β
(A
0
B
0
C
0
)
2/3
e
−2r
+ D
k
e
−(2+k)r
, (2.6)
where the sum over k goes over all positive integers.
We plug the series expansions (2.5)–(2.6) into the Einstein equations and solve them
order by order in powers of e
r
. The results of this procedure are summarized in appendix A.
The important upshot is that the UV expansion is controlled by seven independent param-
eters {A
0
, B
0
, C
0
, A
3
, B
3
, α, β}. It turns out that the Einstein equations are invariant under
constant shifts of r which we use to eliminate one of the parameters, setting A
0
=
1
4
. Com-
paring the asymptotic form of the metric with the metric (1.1) on the double squashed
sphere one can find the following relation between the squashing parameters A and B and
the leading order coefficients B
0
and C
0
A =
1
4C
0
− 1 , B =
1
4B
0
− 1 . (2.7)
The leading coefficients B
0
, C
0
and α specify the asymptotic values of metric and field.
As we discuss in appendix A the values of the subleading coefficients (A
3
, B
3
and β) are
fixed by imposing regularity conditions (either on a NUT or a Bolt) in the bulk of the full
solution of the nonlinear equations of motion.
In practice we use the IR expansions (cf. (A.4) and (A.7)) as initial conditions to inte-
grate the equations of motion numerically to the UV. This yields a three-parameter family
of solutions that are controlled by two coefficients specifying the IR behavior of the scale
factors l
a
(r) and by the initial value Φ
0
of the scalar field. There are two distinct classes of
solutions. The first class consists of regular solutions for which the metric functions l
a
(r)
grow exponentially, the scalar field gradually decays and the boundary metric is a sphere
with two non-trivial squashing parameters as in (1.1). A representative example of a NUT
solution of this kind is shown in figure 2. We also find a class of singular solutions for
which one or more of the metric functions l
a
(r) vanish at some finite value of r, leading
to a curvature singularity. We will ignore the second class of solutions since they do not
contribute to the wave function in the large three-volume regime.
The Bolt solutions only exist for sufficiently large, positive squashings. In this regime
there is often more than one combination of IR parameters that yields the same values of
the leading asymptotic parameters A, B and α.
The regularity condition on the scalar field in the interior yields a relation β(α) between
the coefficients of its UV profile which depends on the squashings and encodes information
about the scalar potential. In section 3 we will compare our results with the free O(N)-
model using the AdS/CFT duality. Under the holographic dictionary this relation can be
translated to a relation between the source and vev of the dual theory. To do so we match
the conformal dimensions of the deformations on both sides. Because on the CFT side the
conformal dimension of the source is two, we have to use the alternate quantization of AdS,
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