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Within AdS/CFT, we establish a general procedure for obtaining the leading singularity of two-point correlators involving operator insertions at different times. The procedure obtained is applied to operators dual to a scalar field which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Johanna Erdmenger , Carlos Hoyos , Shu Lin

We study the evolution of holographic complexity in various AdS/CFT models containing cosmological crunch singularities. We find that a notion of complexity measured by extremal bulk volumes tends to decrease as the singularity is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Jose L. F. Barbon , Eliezer Rabinovici

We report some new results on the complex-temperature (CT) singularities of $q$-state Potts models on the square lattice. We concentrate on the problematic region $Re(a) < 0$ (where $a=e^K$) in which CT zeros of the partition function are…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-13 Victor Matveev , Robert Shrock

The AdS/CFT correspondence relates certain strongly coupled CFTs with large effective central charge $c_\text{eff}$ to semi-classical gravitational theories with AdS asymptotics. We describe recent progress in understanding gravity duals…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-05 Donald Marolf , Mukund Rangamani , Toby Wiseman

We explore physics behind the horizon in eternal AdS Schwarzschild black holes. In dimension d >3, where the curvature grows large near the singularity, we find distinct but subtle signals of this singularity in the boundary CFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Lukasz Fidkowski , Veronika Hubeny , Matthew Kleban , Stephen Shenker

The physics of gravitational waves and other classical fields on specifically four-dimensional backgrounds of black holes exhibits electric-magnetic-like dualities. In this paper, we discuss the structure of such dualities in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-08 Sašo Grozdanov , Mile Vrbica

A sharp signature of the black hole singularity in holography is a divergence in the boundary thermal two-point function at a specific point in the complex time plane. This divergence arises from a null geodesic that bounces off the black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-14 Matthew Dodelson , Cristoforo Iossa , Robin Karlsson

We study the hololgraphic dual of the extended thermodynamics of spherically symmetric, charged AdS black holes in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. The gravitational thermodynamics of AdS black holes can be extended by allowing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Wan Cong , David Kubiznak , Robert Mann , Manus Visser

In the AdS/CFT correspondence, the entanglement entropy of subregions in the boundary CFT is conjectured to be dual to the area of a bulk extremal surface at leading order in $G_N$ in the holographic limit. Under this dictionary, distantly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-05 Sean Colin-Ellerin , Veronika E. Hubeny , Benjamin E. Niehoff , Jonathan Sorce

We study two-point correlation functions of heavy scalar fields in the Nariai geometry. Utilizing the heat kernel formalism, we obtain this result from a geodesic approximation to the two-point function on a product of spheres. By…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Lars Aalsma , Mir Mehedi Faruk

We obtain the thermodynamic geometry of a (2+1) dimensional strongly coupled quantum field theory at a finite temperature in a holographic set up, through the gauge/gravity correspondence. The bulk dual gravitational theory is described by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-30 Sayan Basak , Pankaj Chaturvedi , Poulami Nandi , Gautam Sengupta

In [arXiv:1512.02232 [hep-th]] it was argued, based on the construction of a holographic c-function, that the curvature singularity of a black brane can be thought of as a trivial IR fixed point. This is dual to the gapped nature of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-31 Shamik Banerjee

Quantum complexity has already shed light on CFT states dual to bulk geometries containing spacelike singularities \cite{Barbon:2015ria, Bolognesi:2018ion, Caputa:2021pad}. In this work, we turn our attention to quantum complexity of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-09 Gaurav Katoch , Jie Ren , Shubho R. Roy

We study holographic entanglement entropy and revisit thermodynamics and confinement in the dilaton-gravity system. Our analysis focuses on a solvable class of backgrounds that includes AdS and linear dilaton spacetimes as particular cases,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-15 Sergio Barbosa , Sylvain Fichet , Eugenio Megias , Mariano Quiros

Near horizon geometries have been widely studied, and have found many applications. Certain static, near horizon geometries are now understood to be bulk duals to CFTs with static scale-invariant sources under the AdS/CFT correspondence.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-26 Andrew Hickling

We establish an exact duality between the extended thermodynamics of five-dimensional charged Gauss-Bonnet AdS black holes and the thermodynamic framework of the dual boundary conformal field theory (CFT). The thermodynamics of the dual CFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Si-Jiang Yang , Shan-Ping Wu , Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

We investigate the analytic structure of thermal spectral function of holographic CFTs, synthesizing recent developments into a set of observations about its asymptotics. Specifically, for a class of scalar primaries with integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-26 Hewei Frederic Jia , Mukund Rangamani

A holographic duality is proposed relating quantum gravity on dS_D (D-dimensional de Sitter space) to conformal field theory on a single S^{D-1} ((D-1)-sphere), in which bulk de Sitter correlators with points on the boundary are related to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrew Strominger

We find, by an appropriate extension of the standard holographic superconductor setup, static bulk solutions which describe holographic duals to non-Abelian vortices. In the core of these vortices a scalar field condenses, breaking a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-30 Gianni Tallarita

A study is undertaken of the gravitational collapse of spherically symmetric thick shells admitting a homothetic Killing vector field under the assumption that the energy momentum tensor corresponds to the absence of a pure outgoing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Brien C. Nolan