Exotic holographic RG flows at finite temperature

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DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2018)173zbMATH Open1402.81197arXiv1805.01769OpenAlexW3103349355MaRDI QIDQ1627397FDOQ1627397


Authors: Umut Gürsoy, Elias Kiritsis, F. Nitti, Leandro Silva Pimenta Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 22 November 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Black hole solutions and their thermodynamics are studied in Einstein-scalar theories. The associated zero-temperature solutions are non-trivial holographic RG flows. These include solutions which skip intermediate extrema of the bulk scalar potential or feature an inversion of the direction of the flow of the coupling (bounces). At finite temperature, a complex set of branches of black hole solutions is found. In some cases, first order phase transitions are found between the black-hole branches. In other cases, black hole solutions are found to exist even for boundary conditions which {em did not} allow a zero-temperature vacuum flow. Finite-temperature solutions driven solely by the vacuum expectation value of a perturbing operator (zero source) are found and studied. Such solutions exist generically (i.e. with no special tuning of the potential) in theories in which the vacuum flows feature bounces. It is found that they exhibit conformal thermodynamics. In special theories with a moduli space of vacua (at zero temperature), it is found that finite temperature destroys the existence of the moduli space.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01769




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