Abstract
We demonstrate explicit counterexamples to the correlated stability conjecture (CSC), which claims that the horizon of a black brane is unstable precisely if that horizon has a thermodynamic instability, meaning that its matrix of susceptibilities has a negative eigenvalue. These examples involve phase transitions near the horizon. Ways to restrict or revise the CSC are suggested. One of our examples shows that N=1* gauge theory has a second-order chiral symmetry breaking phase transition at a temperature well above the confinement scale.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 104019 |
| Journal | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue number | 10 |
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| State | Published - Nov 15 2005 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
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Friess, J. J., Gubser, S. S., & Mitra, I. (2005). Counterexamples to the correlated stability conjecture. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 72(10), [104019]. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.72.104019