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Bulk Duals for Generic Static, Scale-Invariant Holographic CFT States

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-08-26 v1

Abstract

Near horizon geometries have been widely studied, and have found many applications. Certain static, near horizon geometries are now understood to be bulk duals to CFTs with static scale-invariant sources under the AdS/CFT correspondence. However, static near-horizon geometries aren't just scale-invariant, they have extra `enhanced' symmetry. This means that they can only be the bulk duals for a special class of static, scale-invariant sources that share this enhanced symmetry. The purpose of this paper is to consider bulk duals for more generic static, scale-invariant sources, without this extra symmetry. These solutions are quite different to near-horizon geometries. In place of the extremal horizon they have a null singularity. We find specific examples of such bulk geometries numerically for the cases of pure gravity, and for an abelian gauge field.

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@article{arxiv.1504.03723,
  title  = {Bulk Duals for Generic Static, Scale-Invariant Holographic CFT States},
  author = {Andrew Hickling},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.03723},
  year   = {2015}
}
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