Black holes and universality classes of critical points
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v2 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We argue that there exists an infinite class of conformal field theories in diverse dimensions, having a universal ratio of the central charge c to the normalized entropy density c'. The universality class includes all conformal theories which possess a classical gravity dual according to the AdS/CFT correspondence. From the practical point of view, the universality of c/c' provides an explicit test which can be applied to determine whether a given critical point may admit a dual description in terms of classical gravity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0801.2785,
title = {Black holes and universality classes of critical points},
author = {Pavel Kovtun and Adam Ritz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.2785},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages; v2: references added, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett