Published July 15, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Hot giant loop holography

  • 1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Perugia, INFN Sezione di Perugia, Via A. Pascoli, 06123 Perugia (Italy)
  • 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1 (Canada)

Description

We argue that there is a phase transition in the expectation value of the Polyakov loop operator in the large N limit of the high temperature deconfined phase of N=4 Yang-Mills theory on a spatial S3. It occurs for the large completely symmetric representation of the SU(N) symmetry group. We speculate that this transition is reflected in the D-branes which are the string theory duals of giant loops.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
82
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 027901-027901.4
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
42003338
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
D-BRANES; EXPECTATION VALUE; HOLOGRAPHY; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; STRING MODELS; STRING THEORY; SU GROUPS; SYMMETRY; YANG-MILLS THEORY
Descriptors DEC
BRANES; COMPOSITE MODELS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; M-THEORY; PARTICLE MODELS; QUARK MODEL; SYMMETRY GROUPS

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