Abstract
The gauge/gravity duality, or holography, is a versatile tool to study the strongly coupled dynamics of gauge theory matter. One of areas were the holographic principle shows its strengths is in the computation of the phase diagram of quantum field theories with known gravity duals. For certain realisations of the duality, the field theory enjoys non-trivial phase diagrams, including phase transitions of different degrees. The goal of this project is to determine the effective action of a particular class of models and to relate this effective action to their known phase structure.