Holographic insights and puzzles
Abstract
The talk is composed of two parts, both set within the AdS/CFT context. In the first part, I discuss holographic insight into strongly coupled field theory in a black hole background. I conjecture two new gravitational solutions, dubbed black funnels and black droplets, which describe two distinct deconfined phases in the field theory at finite temperature. I also briefly mention puzzles associated with an analogous set-up in a rotating black hole background. In the second part of the talk, I discuss time-dependent states in a CFT on flat spacetime background, exemplified by the conformal soliton flow. Here I focus on puzzles regarding the nature of entropy in time-evolving states and its holographic dual.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1103.1999,
title = {Holographic insights and puzzles},
author = {Veronika E. Hubeny},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.1999},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
23 pages, 9 figures; prepared for the Proceedings of the XVIth European Workshop on String Theory, Madrid, Spain, June 14-18 2010