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Holography for UV-incomplete gauge theories is important but poorly understood. A paradigmatic example is d = 4, \( \mathcal{N}=4 \) super Yang-Mills coupled to N f quark flavors, which possesses a Landau pole at a UV scale ΛLP. The dual gravity solution exhibits a UV singularity at a finite proper distance along the holographic direction. Despite this, holographic renormalization can be fully implemented via analytic continuation to an AdS solution. The presence of a UV cut-off manifests itself in several interesting ways. At energies E ≪ ΛLP no pathologies appear, as expected from effective field theory. In contrast, at scales E ≲ ΛLP the gravitational potential becomes repulsive, and at temperatures T ≲ ΛLP the specific heat becomes negative. Although we focus on \( \mathcal{N}=4 \) super Yang-Mills with flavor, our qualitative results apply to a much more general class of theories, since they only depend on the fact that the metric near the UV singularity is a hyper-scaling violating metric with exponent θ > d − 1.
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Faedo, A.F., Mateos, D., Pantelidou, C. et al. Holography with a Landau pole. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 47 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2017)047
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