New Horizons in the Holographic Conformal Phase Transition [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03773


We describe cosmological solutions of the holographic dilaton with the aim of exploring alternatives to the commonly studied thermal Randall-Sundrum phase transition. It is well known that the thermal transition is typically strongly first order, with the requirement of a perturbative 5D gravity theory obstructing completion of the transition. This thermal transition corresponds to nucleation of an infrared brane through the surface of an AdS-Schwarzschild horizon. The approach we study instead invokes an early epoch in which the cosmology is fully 5-dimensional, with highly relativistic brane motion, and with Rindler horizons obscuring the infrared brane at early times. Our approach corresponds, via AdS/CFT, to a non-equilibrium approach to the conformal phase transition. We comment on a class of initial conditions that generically leads to completion of the phase transition without sacrificing perturbativity of the 5D theory.

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C. Eröncel, J. Hubisz, S. Lee, et. al.
Tue, 9 May 23
82/88

Comments: 43 pages, 9 figures