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$AdS_2$ dilaton gravity from reductions of some nonrelativistic theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-08-22 v3

Abstract

We study dilaton-gravity theories in 2-dimensions obtained by dimensional reduction of higher dimensional nonrelativistic theories. Focussing on certain families of extremal charged hyperscaling violating Lifshitz black branes in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theories with an extra gauge field in 4-dimensions, we obtain AdS2AdS_2 backgrounds in the near horizon throats. We argue that these backgrounds can be obtained in equivalent theories of 2-dim dilaton-gravity with an extra scalar, descending from the higher dimensional scalar, and an interaction potential with the dilaton. A simple subcase here is the relativistic black brane in Einstein-Maxwell theory. We then study linearized fluctuations of the metric, dilaton and the extra scalar about these AdS2AdS_2 backgrounds. The coefficient of the leading Schwarzian derivative term is proportional to the entropy of the (compactified) extremal black branes.

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@article{arxiv.1803.06827,
  title  = {$AdS_2$ dilaton gravity from reductions of some nonrelativistic theories},
  author = {Kedar S. Kolekar and K. Narayan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.06827},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Latex, 30pgs, references and various clarifications added; v3: references added, typos fixed, matches published version