Bulk Duals for Generic Static, Scale-Invariant Holographic CFT States Seminar

Certain static, near horizon geometries are now understood to be bulk duals to CFTs with static scale-invariant sources under the AdS/CFT correspondence. However, static near-horizon geometries aren't just scale-invariant, they have extra `enhanced' symmetry. This means that they can only be the bulk duals for the special class of static, scale-invariant sources that share this enhanced symmetry. In this talk I will present numerical constructions of bulk duals for more generic static, scale-invariant sources, without this extra symmetry. These solutions are quite different to near-horizon geometries. In place of the extremal horizon they have a null singularity. I will discuss the potential relevance of these geometries to the problem of finding the IR geometry in the bulk dual for more generic CFT source terms.