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Detachable circles and temperature-inversion dualities for CFT$_d$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-03-14 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We use a Weyl transformation between S1×Sd1S^1 \times S^{d-1} and S1×Hd1/ZS^1 \times \mathcal{H}^{d-1}/\mathbb{Z} to relate a conformal field theory at arbitrary temperature on Sd1S^{d-1} to itself at the inverse temperature on Hd1/Z\mathcal{H}^{d-1}/\mathbb{Z}. We use this equivalence to deduce a confining phase transition at finite temperature for large-NN gauge theories on hyperbolic space. In the context of gauge/gravity duality, this equivalence provides new examples of smooth bulk solutions which asymptote to conically singular geometries at the AdS boundary. We also discuss implications for the Eguchi-Kawai mechanism and a high-temperature/low-temperature duality on Sd1S^{d-1}.

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@article{arxiv.1709.06084,
  title  = {Detachable circles and temperature-inversion dualities for CFT$_d$},
  author = {Gary T. Horowitz and Edgar Shaghoulian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.06084},
  year   = {2018}
}

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21 pages

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