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Deformations of Lifshitz holography

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-20 v1

Abstract

The simplest gravity duals for quantum critical theories with z=2 `Lifshitz' scale invariance admit a marginally relevant deformation. Generic black holes in the bulk describe the field theory with a dynamically generated momentum scale Lambda as well as finite temperature T. We describe the thermodynamics of these black holes in the quantum critical regime where T >> Lambda^2. The deformation changes the asymptotics of the spacetime mildly and leads to intricate UV sensitivities of the theory which we control perturbatively in Lambda^2/T.

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@article{arxiv.0912.2784,
  title  = {Deformations of Lifshitz holography},
  author = {Miranda C. N. Cheng and Sean A. Hartnoll and Cynthia A. Keeler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.2784},
  year   = {2014}
}

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1+27 pages, 12 figures