Criticality for charged black branes

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Publication:1705965

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2017)082zbMATH Open1382.83059arXiv1705.07094MaRDI QIDQ1705965FDOQ1705965


Authors: Robie A. Hennigar Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 19 March 2018

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

Abstract: We show that the inclusion of higher curvature terms in the gravitational action can lead to phase transitions and critical behaviour for charged black branes. The higher curvature terms considered here belong to the recently constructed generalized quasi-topological class [ArXiv: 1703.01631], which possess a number of interesting properties, such as being ghost-free on constant curvature backgrounds and non-trivial in four dimensions. We show that critical behaviour is a generic feature of the black branes in all dimensions dge4, and contextualize the results with a review of the properties of black branes in Lovelock and quasi-topological gravity, where critical behaviour is not possible. These results may have interesting implications for the CFTs dual to this class of theories.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07094




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