title: Spontaneous generation of angular momentum in holographic theories.
abstract: The Schwarzschild black two-brane in four-dimensional anti-de Sitter space is dual to a finite temperature state in three-dimensional conformal field theory. We show that the solution acquires a nonzero angular momentum density when a gravitational Chern-Simons coupling is turned on in the bulk, even though the solution is not modified. A similar phenomenon is found for the Reissner-Nordström black two-brane with axionic coupling to the gauge field. We discuss interpretation of this phenomenon from the point of view of the boundary three-dimensional conformal field theory.
authors.affiliation: Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Hirosi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ooguri
authors.forename: Bogdan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Stoica
authors.forename: Nicolás
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yunes