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Holographic Complex Conformal Field Theories

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arxiv 1909.04008 v2 pith:ZI55FNMX submitted 2019-09-09 hep-th cond-mat.str-el

Anton F. Faedo , Carlos Hoyos , David Mateos , Javier G. Subils This is my paper · ORCID
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The loss of criticality in the form of weak first-order transitions or the end of the conformal window in gauge theories can be described as the merging of two fixed points that move to complex values of the couplings. When the complex fixed points are close to the real axis, the system typically exhibits walking behavior with Miransky (or Berezinsky-Kosterlitz-Thouless) scaling. We present a novel realization of these phenomena at strong coupling by means of the gauge/gravity duality, and give evidence for the conjectured existence of complex conformal field theories at the fixed points.

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