Critical and multicritical Kasner scaling in holographic phase transitions

Abstract

We study how holographic phase transitions imprint their scaling laws on the local Kasner geometry inside Einstein-scalar black holes. At fixed double-trace coupling, we derive the near-critical scaling of the deviation of the first-epoch Kasner exponent from the Schwarzschild value: $p_t^{(1)}+\frac{1}{3} \propto O^2 \propto (T_c-T)^{1/r}$, where $O$ denotes the boundary condensate and $r$ labels ordinary criticality ($r=1$), tricriticality ($r=2$), and higher multicriticality ($r\geq3$). A super-exponential scalar potential generates a sequence of Kasner epochs separated by scalar-field bounces. We further find that any later epoch that can be tracked continuously across the transition inherits the same temperature exponent, while its coefficient depends on the epoch. Numerical solutions confirm these predictions for the ordinary and tricritical cases. Finally, we show analytically that the leading irrelevant exponent of the infrared fixed point governs the low-temperature Kasner scaling, and verify the resulting scaling numerically for the first Kasner exponent.