An analytic Lifshitz black hole
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Balasubramanian, Koushik
McGreevy, John
Date Issued
November 2009
Journal
Physical Review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Balasubramanian, Koushik , and John McGreevy. “An analytic Lifshitz black hole.” Physical Review D 80.10 (2009): 104039. © 2009 The American Physical Society
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Abstract
A Lifshitz point is described by a quantum field theory with anisotropic scale invariance (but not Galilean invariance). In 8, gravity duals were conjectured for such theories. We construct analytically a black hole that asymptotes to a vacuum Lifshitz solution; this black hole solves the equations of motion of some simple (but somewhat strange) extensions of the models of 8. We study its thermodynamics and scalar response functions. The scalar wave equation turns out to be exactly solvable. Interestingly, the Green’s functions do not exhibit the ultralocal behavior seen previously in the free Lifshitz scalar theory.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.80.104039
