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Black Droplets

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-19 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Black droplets and black funnels are gravitational duals to states of a large N, strongly coupled CFT on a fixed black hole background. We numerically construct black droplets corresponding to a CFT on a Schwarzchild background with finite asymptotic temperature. We find two branches of such droplet solutions which meet at a turning point. Our results suggest that the equilibrium black droplet solution does not exist, which would imply that the Hartle-Hawking state in this system is dual to the black funnel constructed in \cite{Santos:2012he}. We also compute the holographic stress energy tensor and match its asymptotic behaviour to perturbation theory.

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@article{arxiv.1405.2078,
  title  = {Black Droplets},
  author = {Jorge E. Santos and Benson Way},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.2078},
  year   = {2015}
}

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20 pages, 11 figures

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