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    Attractive holographic c -functions
    (Springer, 2014-11-24) Bhattacharyya, Arpan; Haque, S. Shajidul; Jejjala, Vishnu; Nampuri, Suresh; Véliz-Osorio, Álvaro
    Using the attractor mechanism for extremal solutions in N = 2 gauged supergravity, we construct a c-function that interpolates between the central charges of theories at ultraviolet and infrared conformal fixed points corresponding to anti-de Sitter geometries. The c-function we obtain is couched purely in terms of bulk quantities and connects two different dimensional CFTs at the stable conformal fixed points under the RG flow.
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    Heating up branes in gauged supergravity
    (Springer, 2014-08-26) Goldstein, Kevin; Nampuri, Suresh; V´eliz-Osorio, Alvaro
    In this note, we explore the solution space of non-extremal black objects in 4D and 5D N = 2 gauged supergravity in the presence of fluxes. We present first order rewritings of the 4D action for a classes of non-extremal dyonic and electric solutions with electric flux backgrounds. Additionally, we obtain the non-extremal version of the Nernst brane in AdS 5 using a simple deformation. Finally, we develop a new technique to deform extremal black solutions in 4D to non-extremal solutions by an analysis of the symmetries of the equations of motion.