Heating up Exotic RG Flows with Holography

TL;DR

This paper employs holography to analyze finite-temperature behaviors of RG flows with unusual properties, revealing complex phase structures in dual theories through black brane solutions.

Contribution

It introduces a holographic model with multiple dual CFTs from scalar potential extrema and maps out their thermal phase diagrams.

Findings

Discovered intricate phase structures extending zero-temperature properties.

Constructed all black brane solutions for the model.

Revealed exotic RG flow behaviors at finite temperature.

Abstract

We use holography to study finite-temperature deformations of RG flows that have exotic properties from an RG viewpoint. The holographic model consists of five-dimensional gravity coupled to a scalar field with a potential. Each negative extrema of the potential defines a dual conformal field theory. We find all the black brane solutions on the gravity side and use them to construct the thermal phase diagrams of the dual theories. We find an intricate phase structure that reflects and extends the exotic properties at zero temperature.