Universal Resistivity from Holographic Massive Gravity

Abstract

Massive gravity provides a holographic model for theories exhibiting momentum dissipation. We provide an analytic expression for the DC conductivity. The result is universal, depending only on properties of the infra-red horizon, and holds at finite temperature and charge density. In addition, we provide a derivation of black hole thermodynamics in holographic massive gravity and show that the resulting physics is sensible.

20 pages, JHEP style, v2: added references, additional comments on more general graviton potentials in Sec. 5, v3: typos corrected to match published version