We use the variational principle approach to derive the large
NN
holographic dictionary for two-dimen-sional
T\bar TTT‾-deformed
CFTs, for both signs of the deformation parameter. The resulting dual
gravitational theory has mixed boundary conditions for the non-dynamical
graviton; the boundary conditions for matter fields are undeformed. When
the matter fields are turned off and the deformation parameter is
negative, the mixed boundary conditions for the metric at infinity can
be reinterpreted on-shell as Dirichlet boundary conditions at finite
bulk radius, in agreement with a previous proposal by McGough, Mezei and
Verlinde. The holographic stress tensor of the deformed CFT is fixed by
the variational principle, and in pure gravity it coincides with the
Brown-York stress tensor on the radial bulk slice with a particular
cosmological constant counterterm contribution. In presence of matter
fields, the connection between the mixed boundary conditions and the
radial ``bulk cutoff’’ is lost. Only the former correctly reproduce the
energy of the bulk configuration, as expected from the fact that a
universal formula for the deformed energy can only depend on the
universal asymptotics of the bulk solution, rather than the details of
its interior. The asymptotic symmetry group associated with the mixed
boundary conditions consists of two commuting copies of a
state-dependent Virasoro algebra, with the same central extension as in
the original CFT.