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Lifshitz spacetimes from AdS null and cosmological solutions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-21 v3

Abstract

We describe solutions of 10-dimensional supergravity comprising null deformations of AdS5×S5AdS_5\times S^5 with a scalar field, which have z=2z=2 Lifshitz symmetries. The bulk Lifshitz geometry in 3+1-dimensions arises by dimensional reduction of these solutions. The dual field theory in this case is a deformation of the N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. We discuss the holographic 2-point function of operators dual to bulk scalars. We further describe time-dependent (cosmological) solutions which have anisotropic Lifshitz scaling symmetries. We also discuss deformations of AdS×XAdS\times X in 11-dimensional supergravity, which are somewhat similar to the solutions above. In some cases here, we expect the field theory duals to be deformations of the Chern-Simons theories on M2-branes stacked at singularities.

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@article{arxiv.1005.3291,
  title  = {Lifshitz spacetimes from AdS null and cosmological solutions},
  author = {Koushik Balasubramanian and K. Narayan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.3291},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

Latex, 29pgs, v3. references, minor clarifications (subsection on Lifshitz geometry seen by scalar probes) added, to appear in JHEP

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