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Black Funnels

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-11 v2

Abstract

The Hartle-Hawking state of N=4\mathcal{N}=4 SYM at strong coupling and large NN on a fixed black hole background has two proposed gravitational duals: a black funnel or a black droplet. We construct the black funnel solutions that are dual to the Hartle-Hawking state on a Schwarzschild black hole and on a class of three-dimensional asymptotically flat black hole backgrounds. We compute their holographic stress tensor and argue for the stability of these solutions.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1208.6291,
  title  = {Black Funnels},
  author = {Jorge E. Santos and Benson Way},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.6291},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

21 pages, 9 figures; v2: corrected typos, added clarifications, version appears on JHEP

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