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Extending the nonsingular hyperscaling violating spacetimes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-17 v2

Abstract

Lifshitz and hyperscaling violating geometries, which provide a holographic description of non-relativistic field theories, generically have a singularity in the infrared region of the geometry, where tidal forces for freely falling observers diverge, but there is a special class of hyperscaling violating geometries where this tidal force divergence does not occur. We explicitly construct a smooth extension of the spacetime in this case, and explore the structure of the spacetime. We find that the spacetime has two disconnected boundaries, as in AdS2_2. We also consider the behaviour of finite-energy excitations of the spacetime at the horizon, arguing that they will have some divergence there.

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@article{arxiv.1310.5878,
  title  = {Extending the nonsingular hyperscaling violating spacetimes},
  author = {Yang Lei and Simon F. Ross},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.5878},
  year   = {2015}
}

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25 pages, 1 figure, v2: references added

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