Lovelock gravity and the AdS/CFT correspondence

• Grant number: 14/07840-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: July 01, 2014
• End date: February 29, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Diego Trancanelli
• Grantee: Anderson Seigo Misobuchi
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física (IF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The scope of this proposal is to investigate higher curvature corrections in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. These are in principle dictated by string theory and would correspond, on the gauge theory side of the duality, to finite N and finite lambda corrections. Our philosophy will be to consider a simple setting where such corrections are under good computational control, namely Lovelock theories of gravity. Lovelock gravities are a simple higher curvature extension of Einstein relativity in space-time dimensions higher than 4. These theories have several nice features: having second order equations for the metric they are free of pathologies and, moreover, admit a wealth of black hole solutions with and without AdS boundary conditions. In this proposal we describe a research project, which will constitute the main result of the student's M.Sc. dissertation. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

JAHNKE, VIKTOR; MISOBUCHI, ANDERSON SEIGO; TRANCANELLI, DIEGO. Holographic renormalization and anisotropic black branes in higher curvature gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics, n. 1, JAN 22 2015. (13/02775-0, 14/07840-7, 14/01805-5)

JAHNKE, VIKTOR; MISOBUCHI, ANDERSON SEIGO. Probing strongly coupled anisotropic plasmas from higher curvature gravity. EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, v. 76, n. 6, JUN 2 2016. (14/07840-7, 14/01805-5)

JAHNKE, VIKTOR; MISOBUCHI, ANDERSON SEIGO; TRANCANELLI, DIEGO. Holographic renormalization and anisotropic black branes in higher curvature gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics, v. N/A, n. 1, p. 34-pg., 2015-01-22. (14/01805-5, 14/07840-7, 13/02775-0)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

MISOBUCHI, Anderson Seigo. Lovelock gravity and the AdS/CFT correspondence. 2016. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física (IF/SBI) São Paulo.