Lovelock theories, holography and the fate of the viscosity bound

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2011)127zbMATH Open1296.83009arXiv1010.1682OpenAlexW3100485251WikidataQ59255584 ScholiaQ59255584MaRDI QIDQ457347FDOQ457347

Authors: Xián O. Camanho, José D. Edelstein, Miguel F. Paulos 

Publication date: 26 September 2014

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

Abstract: We consider Lovelock theories of gravity in the context of AdS/CFT. We show that, for these theories, causality violation on a black hole background can occur well in the interior of the geometry, thus posing more stringent constraints than were previously found in the literature. Also, we find that instabilities of the geometry can appear for certain parameter values at any point in the geometry, as well in the bulk as close to the horizon. These new sources of causality violation and instability should be related to CFT features that do not depend on the UV behavior. They solve a puzzle found previously concerning unphysical negative values for the shear viscosity that are not ruled out solely by causality restrictions. We find that, contrary to previous expectations, causality violation is not always related to positivity of energy. Furthermore, we compute the bound for the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio of supersymmetric conformal field theories from d=4 till d=10 - i.e., up to quartic Lovelock theory -, and find that it behaves smoothly as a function of d. We propose an approximate formula that nicely fits these values and has a nice asymptotic behavior when d goes to infinity for any Lovelock gravity. We discuss in some detail the latter limit. We finally argue that it is possible to obtain increasingly lower values for the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio by the inclusion of more Lovelock terms.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.1682

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zbMATH Keywords

field theories in higher dimensionsgauge-gravity correspondenceAdS-CFT correspondenceholography and quark-gluon plasmas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05)

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