Criticality for charged black branes

Abstract We show that the inclusion of higher curvature terms in the gravitational action can lead to phase transitions and critical behaviour for charged black branes. The higher curvature terms considered here belong to the recently constructed generalized quasi-topological class [ arXiv:1703.0163...

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Main Author: Robie A. Hennigar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-09-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP09(2017)082
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description Abstract We show that the inclusion of higher curvature terms in the gravitational action can lead to phase transitions and critical behaviour for charged black branes. The higher curvature terms considered here belong to the recently constructed generalized quasi-topological class [ arXiv:1703.01631 ], which possess a number of interesting properties, such as being ghost-free on constant curvature backgrounds and non-trivial in four dimensions. We show that critical behaviour is a generic feature of the black branes in all dimensions d ≥ 4, and contextualize the results with a review of the properties of black branes in Lovelock and quasi-topological gravity, where critical behaviour is not possible. These results may have interesting implications for the CFTs dual to this class of theories.
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spelling doaj.art-69caf4b90ee04cd8bfa9ddf8053aee912022-12-22T02:02:51ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792017-09-012017913210.1007/JHEP09(2017)082Criticality for charged black branesRobie A. Hennigar0Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of WaterlooAbstract We show that the inclusion of higher curvature terms in the gravitational action can lead to phase transitions and critical behaviour for charged black branes. The higher curvature terms considered here belong to the recently constructed generalized quasi-topological class [ arXiv:1703.01631 ], which possess a number of interesting properties, such as being ghost-free on constant curvature backgrounds and non-trivial in four dimensions. We show that critical behaviour is a generic feature of the black branes in all dimensions d ≥ 4, and contextualize the results with a review of the properties of black branes in Lovelock and quasi-topological gravity, where critical behaviour is not possible. These results may have interesting implications for the CFTs dual to this class of theories.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP09(2017)082Black HolesClassical Theories of GravityAdS-CFT Correspondence
spellingShingle Robie A. Hennigar
Criticality for charged black branes
Journal of High Energy Physics
Black Holes
Classical Theories of Gravity
AdS-CFT Correspondence
title Criticality for charged black branes
title_full Criticality for charged black branes
title_fullStr Criticality for charged black branes
title_full_unstemmed Criticality for charged black branes
title_short Criticality for charged black branes
title_sort criticality for charged black branes
topic Black Holes
Classical Theories of Gravity
AdS-CFT Correspondence
url http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP09(2017)082
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