String Theory Seminars
Einstein-(Maxwell)-Dilaton theories: holographic applications and generalised dimensional reduction
by Prof. Blaise Gouteraux (University of Paris)
Monday, May 14, 2012
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(Asia/Kolkata)
at Colaba Campus ( A304 )
at Colaba Campus ( A304 )
Description |
Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton theories have recently attracted a lot of attention in holography, in particular in application to Condensed Matter systems. After reviewing these, I will explain in this talk how they may derive from scale invariant theories using generalised dimensional reduction, where the number of reduced dimensions is traded against a real, analytically continued parameter. This technique allows to generate easily new black hole solutions (or recover know ones) in gravity plus scalars theories, explains their scaling properties, as well as facilitates the computation of holographic observables such as the shear viscosity and other transport coefficients. |