Abstract
We consider finite charge density geometries which interpolate between in the infrared and in the ultraviolet, while traversing an intermediate regime of anisotropic Lifshitz scaling and hyperscaling violation. We work with Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton models and only turn on a background electric field. The spatially modulated instabilities of the near-horizon part of the geometry are used to argue that the scaling solutions themselves should be thought of as being unstable—in the deep infrared—to spatially modulated phases. We identify instability windows for the scaling exponents and , which are refined further by requiring the solutions to satisfy the null energy condition. This analysis reinforces the idea that, for large classes of models, spatially modulated phases describe the ground state of hyperscaling violating scaling geometries.
- Received 21 November 2013
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.026007
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