Holography of Linear Dilaton Spacetimes from the Bottom Up

Abstract

The linear dilaton background is the keystone of a string-derived holographic correspondence beyond AdS${}_{d+1}$/CFT${}_d$. This motivates an exploration of the $(d+1)$-dimensional linear dilaton spacetime (LD${}_{d+1}$) and its holographic properties from the low-energy viewpoint. We first notice that the LD${}_{d+1}$ space has simple conformal symmetries, that we use to shape an effective field theory (EFT) on the LD background. We then place a brane in the background to study holography at the level of quantum fields and gravity. We find that the holographic correlators from the EFT feature a pattern of singularities at certain kinematic thresholds. We argue that such singularities can be used to bootstrap the putative $d$-dimensional dual theory using techniques analogous to those of the Cosmological Bootstrap program. Turning on finite temperature, we study the holographic fluid emerging on the brane in the presence of a bulk black hole. We find that the holographic fluid is pressureless for any $d$ due to a cancellation between Weyl curvature and dilaton stress tensor, and verify consistency with the time evolution of the theory. From the fluid thermodynamics, we find a universal temperature and Hagedorn behavior for any $d$. This matches the properties of a CFT${}_2$ with large $T\overline{T}$ deformation, and of little string theory for $d=6$. Both the fluid equation of state and the spectrum of quantum fluctuations suggest that the $d$-dimensional dual theory arising from LD${}_{d+1}$ is generically gapped.

40+11 pages, 3 figures

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