Gravitational quasinormal modes for Lifshitz black branes

TL;DR

This paper investigates gravitational quasinormal modes in Lifshitz black branes within two models, revealing distinct dispersion relations and implications for dual field theories, especially regarding momentum and energy relaxation.

Contribution

It provides a comparative analysis of quasinormal modes in Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton and Einstein-Proca models, highlighting differences in dispersion relations and their holographic implications.

Findings

Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton model shows $ ext{shear} o -i k^4$, $ ext{sound} o -i k^2$ dispersion.

Einstein-Proca model exhibits $ ext{shear} o -i k^2$, $ ext{sound} o k$ dispersion.

The results suggest infinite mass density in the dual field theory for the Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton case.

Abstract

We study the scalar and vector channels of gravitational quasinormal modes for Lifshitz black branes emerging in Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton and Einstein-Proca theories in four and five dimensions, finding significant differences between the two models. In particular, rather surprisingly, in the Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton model the dispersion relations for the shear and sound modes are given by $\omega_{shear} \sim -i\,k^4$ and $\omega_{sound}\sim-i \,k^2$, while in the Einstein-Proca model they take the more conventional form $\omega_{shear} \sim -i\,k^2$ and $\omega_{sound}\sim k$, the proportionality constants depend on the dynamical exponent and the appropriate factors of temperature. Through the holographic duality, this calculation provides information about the relaxation of the momentum and energy flux operators in a putative dual Lifshitz field theory. Comparing with the dispersion relations obtained directly by considering Lifshitz hydrodynamics suggest that the mass density of the equilibrium state in the Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton model is infinite.