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Thermal behavior of charged dilatonic black branes in AdS and UV completions of Lifshitz-like geometries

arXiv:1007.1464 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.82.106013

Abstract

Several classes of gravitational backgrounds in dimensions have been proposed as holographic duals to Lifshitz-like theories describing critical phenomena in dimensions with critical exponent . We numerically explore one such model, characterized by a temperature and chemical potential , and find how to embed these solutions into AdS for a range of values of . We find no phase transition going from the to the regimes, and find that the solutions smoothly interpolate between the Lifshitz-like behavior and the relativistic AdS-like behavior. Finally, we exploit some conserved quantities to find a relationship between the energy density $\mc E$, entropy density , and number density , $\mc E=\frac{2}{3} \left(Ts+μn\right)$. We show that this result is expected from general scaling arguments, and generalizes to $\mc E= \frac{d}{d+1}\left(Ts+μn\right)$ for a theory dual to AdS (Poincaré patch) asymptotics with a local gauge invariance.

26 pages, 4 figures

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