Stability in Einstein-Scalar Gravity with a Logarithmic Branch

Details Stability in Einstein-Scalar Gravity with a Logarithmic Branch Stability in Einstein-Scalar Gravity with a Logarithmic Branch

2011-12-16

arxiv.org/abs/1112.3964v2

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

31 pages, 7 figures

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We investigate the non-perturbative stability of asymptotically anti-de Sitter gravity coupled to tachyonic scalar fields with mass saturating the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound. Such "designer gravity" theories admit a large class of boundary conditions at asymptotic infinity. At this mass, the asymptotic behavior of the scalar field develops a logarithmic branch, and previous attempts at proving a minimum energy theorem failed due to a large radius divergence in the spinor charge. In this paper, we finally resolve this issue and derive a lower bound on the conserved energy. Just as for masses slightly above the BF bound, a given scalar potential can admit two possible branches of the corresponding superpotential, one analytic and one non-analytic. The key point again is that existence of the non-analytic branch is necessary for the energy bound to hold. We discuss several AdS/CFT applications of this result, including the use of double-trace deformations to induce spontaneous symmetry breaking.

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