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Stability in Holographic Theories with Irrelevant Deformations
Aaron J. Amsel, Matthew M. Roberts
We investigate the non-perturbative stability of asymptotically anti-de Sitter gravity coupled to tachyonic scalar fields with mass near the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound. Such scal…
A Wald-like Formula for Energy
Aaron J. Amsel, Dan Gorbonos
We present a simple "Wald-like" formula for gravitational energy about a constant curvature background spacetime. The formula is derived following the Abbott-Deser-Tekin approach f…
Stability in Einstein-Scalar Gravity with a Logarithmic Branch
Aaron J. Amsel, Matthew M. Roberts
We investigate the non-perturbative stability of asymptotically anti-de Sitter gravity coupled to tachyonic scalar fields with mass saturating the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound. Suc…
The Weak Gravity Conjecture and the Viscosity Bound with Six-Derivative Corrections
Aaron J. Amsel, Dan Gorbonos
The weak gravity conjecture and the shear viscosity to entropy density bound place constraints on low energy effective field theories that may help to distinguish which theories ca…
On the Stress Tensor of Kerr/CFT
Aaron J. Amsel, Donald Marolf, Matthew M. Roberts
The recently-conjectured Kerr/CFT correspondence posits a field theory dual to dynamics in the near-horizon region of an extreme Kerr black hole with certain boundary conditions. W…
No Dynamics in the Extremal Kerr Throat
Aaron J. Amsel, Gary T. Horowitz, Donald Marolf +1
Motivated by the Kerr/CFT conjecture, we explore solutions of vacuum general relativity whose asymptotic behavior agrees with that of the extremal Kerr throat, sometimes called the…