String theory duals of Lifshitz-Chern-Simons gauge theories
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-03 v2
Abstract
We propose candidate gravity duals for a class of non-Abelian z=2 Lifshitz Chern-Simons (LCS) gauge theories studied by Mulligan, Kachru and Nayak. These are nonrelativistic gauge theories in 2+1 dimensions in which parity and time-reversal symmetries are explicitly broken by the presence of a Chern-Simons term. We show that these field theories can be realized as deformations of DLCQ N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. Using the holographic dictionary, we identify the bulk fields that are dual to these deformations. The geometries describing the groundstates of the non-Abelian LCS gauge theories realized here exhibit a mass gap.
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@article{arxiv.1111.0634,
title = {String theory duals of Lifshitz-Chern-Simons gauge theories},
author = {Koushik Balasubramanian and John McGreevy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.0634},
year = {2015}
}
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25+14 pages, 3 figures; v2: significant corrections regarding IR geometry, resulting in new section 5; journal version