Physics Letters B 732 (2014) 137–141
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Black holes in ω-deformed gauged N = 8 supergravity
Andrés Anabalón
a,b,∗
, Dumitru Astefanesei
c
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Departamento de Ciencias, Facultad de Artes Liberales y Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Av. Padre Hurtado 750, Viña delMar,Chile
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Université de Lyon, Laboratoire de Physique, UMR 5672, CNRS, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 allé d’Italie, F-69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France
c
Instituto de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Casilla 4059, Valparaíso, Chile
article info abstract
Article history:
Received 24 January 2014
Received in revised form 9 March 2014
Accepted 18 March 2014
Available online 21 March 2014
Editor: M. Cveti
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Motivated by the recently found 4-dimensional ω-deformed gauged supergravity, we investigate the
black hole solutions within the single scalar field consistent truncations of this theory. We construct
black hole solutions that have spherical, toroidal, and hyperbolic horizon topologies. The scalar field
is regular everywhere outside the curvature singularity and the stress–energy tensor satisfies the null
energy condition. When the parameter
ω does not vanish, there is a degeneracy in the spectrum of black
hole solutions for boundary conditions that preserve the asymptotic Anti-de Sitter symmetries. These
boundary conditions correspond to multi-trace deformations in the dual field theory.
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1. Introduction
Supergravity is an effective theory for string theory at low en-
ergies compared to the string energy scale. The Anti-de Sitter/Con-
formal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) duality [1] provides a remarkable
tool for extracting information about strongly coupled gauge the-
ories (in d dimensions) from a dual supergravity description (in
d
+ 1 dimensions). Within the AdS/CFT duality, the radial coordi-
nate plays the role of the energy scale and so the bulk geometry
has a nice interpretation as a renormalization group (RG) flow of
the dual field theory [2] (see, also, the review [3]).
The gauged N
= 8 supergravity in four dimensions is the maxi-
mal gauged supergravity with spins lower or equal than two and it
can be obtained by Kaluza–Klein reduction of 11-dimensional su-
pergravity [4] on a 7-dimensional sphere [5]. In the holographic
context, much of the interest on the 4-dimensional gauged super-
gravities comes from the utility of the ABJM model [6] in testing
various strongly coupled phenomena in condensed matter physics.
What came as a surprise, recently, is the existence of a con-
tinuous
one-parameter family of inequivalent maximally super-
symmetric gauged supergravities [7] (the critical points were ex-
tensively studied in [8]). These theories are characterized by one
‘angular parameter’,
ω, that generates an electric–magnetic dual-
ity transformation prior to selecting the SO
(8) gauging, and they
are referred to as
ω-deformed gauged N = 8 supergravity. At the
practical level, the
ω parameter can be introduced in the maximal
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Corresponding author.
E-mail addresses: andr
es.anabalon@uai.cl (A. Anabalón),
dumitru.astefanesei@ucv.cl (D. Astefanesei).
gauged supergravity by multiplying the 56-bein, V, by a diagonal
matrix containing either e
iω
or e
−iω
[9]. As the moduli potential is
a non-linear function in terms of
V ,theparameterω appears ex-
plicitly in the potential. It is worth noting that, long time ago, this
kind of ‘angles’ was introduced in N
= 4 gauged supergravities in
[10].
In this Letter, we construct e
xact domain wall (see, also, [11,
12]) and black hole solutions in one scalar field consistent trunca-
tions of
ω-deformed theories [11], which correspond to RG flows
of 3-dimensional dual quantum field theories at zero and finite
temperatures, respectively. We show that the null energy condi-
tion (which is the relevant energy condition in AdS) is satisfied
and construct the c-function using the gravity side of the duality.
For
ω = 0, we obtain domain wall solutions and explicitly write
down the corresponding superpotential. When
ω does not vanish,
there is a degeneracy in the spectrum of black hole solutions. Since
the black holes are interpreted as thermal states in the dual the-
ory, this degeneracy may seem puzzling at first sight. However,
this can be understood because the solutions correspond to dif-
ferent boundary conditions which in turn correspond to different
deformations of the dual field theory. The degeneracy in the spec-
trum of solutions can then be understood as a sign degeneracy in
the AdS invariant boundary conditions due to a change in the sign
of the scalar field. It is also interesting to note that the no-hair
conjecture in asymptotically AdS spacetimes of [14] have as a hy-
pothesis the reality of the superpotential. So, it does not apply to
the
ω-deformed theory, as the superpotential is generically com-
plex [15].
Since the coordinates in which the black hole solutions are
cons
tructed are not very intuitive, we will explicitly provide the
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