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Holographic flow of anomalous transport coefficients

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We study the holographic flow of anomalous conductivities induced by gauge and gravitational Chern-Simons terms. We find that the contribution from the gauge Chern-Simons term gives rise to a flow that can be interpreted in terms of an effective, cutoff dependent chemical potential. In contrast the contribution of the gauge-gravitational Chern-Simons term is just the temperature squared and does not flow.

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Landsteiner, K., Melgar, L. Holographic flow of anomalous transport coefficients. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 131 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2012)131

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