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Flows involving Lifshitz solutions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-30 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We construct gravity solutions describing renormalization group flows relating relativistic and non-relativistic conformal theories. We work both in a simple phenomenological theory with a massive vector field, and in an N=4, d=6 gauged supergravity theory, which can be consistently embedded in string theory. These flows offer some further insight into holography for Lifshitz geometries: in particular, they enable us to give a description of the field theory dual to the Lifshitz solutions in the latter theory. We also note that some of the AdS and Lifshitz solutions in the N=4, d=6 gauged supergravity theory are dynamically unstable.

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@article{arxiv.1108.3067,
  title  = {Flows involving Lifshitz solutions},
  author = {Harry Braviner and Ruth Gregory and Simon F. Ross},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.3067},
  year   = {2015}
}

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38 pages, 17 figures, v2: reference added

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