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The Schwarzschild-black string AdS soliton: Instability and holographic heat transport

The Schwarzschild-black string AdS soliton: Instability and holographic heat transport
The Schwarzschild-black string AdS soliton: Instability and holographic heat transport
We present a calculation of two-point correlation functions of the stress-energy tensor in the strongly-coupled, confining gauge theory which is holographically dual to the AdS soliton geometry. The fact that the AdS soliton smoothly caps off at a certain point along the holographic direction, ensures that these correlators are dominated by quasinormal mode contributions and thus show an exponential decay in position space. In order to study such a field theory on a curved spacetime, we foliate the six-dimensional AdS soliton with a Schwarzschild black hole. Via gauge/gravity duality, this new geometry describes a confining field theory with supersymmetry breaking boundary conditions on a non-dynamical Schwarzschild black hole background. We also calculate stress-energy correlators for this setting, thus demonstrating exponentially damped heat transport. This analysis is valid in the confined phase. We model a deconfinement transition by explicitly demonstrating a classical instability of Gregory-Laflamme-type of this bulk spacetime.
hep-th, gr-qc
Haehl, Felix M.
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Haehl, Felix M.
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Haehl, Felix M. (2013) The Schwarzschild-black string AdS soliton: Instability and holographic heat transport. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 30, [055002]. (doi:10.1088/0264-9381/30/5/055002).

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We present a calculation of two-point correlation functions of the stress-energy tensor in the strongly-coupled, confining gauge theory which is holographically dual to the AdS soliton geometry. The fact that the AdS soliton smoothly caps off at a certain point along the holographic direction, ensures that these correlators are dominated by quasinormal mode contributions and thus show an exponential decay in position space. In order to study such a field theory on a curved spacetime, we foliate the six-dimensional AdS soliton with a Schwarzschild black hole. Via gauge/gravity duality, this new geometry describes a confining field theory with supersymmetry breaking boundary conditions on a non-dynamical Schwarzschild black hole background. We also calculate stress-energy correlators for this setting, thus demonstrating exponentially damped heat transport. This analysis is valid in the confined phase. We model a deconfinement transition by explicitly demonstrating a classical instability of Gregory-Laflamme-type of this bulk spacetime.

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Submitted date: 21 October 2012
Published date: 1 February 2013
Additional Information: 26 pages, 3 figures
Keywords: hep-th, gr-qc

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Local EPrints ID: 471662
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/471662
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ORCID for Felix M. Haehl: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7426-0962

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