M-theory and stringy corrections to anti-de Sitter black holes and conformal field theories

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Abstract: We consider black holes in anti-de Sitter space AdS_{p+2} (p = 2,3,5), which have hyperbolic, flat or spherical event horizons. The O(alpha'3) corrections (or the leading corrections in powers of the eleven-dimensional Planck length) to the black hole metrics are computed for the various topologies and dimensions. We investigate the consequences of the stringy or M-theory corrections for the black hole thermodynamics. In particular, we show the emergence of a stable branch of small spherical black holes. We obtain the corrected Hawking-Page transition temperature for black holes with spherical horizons, and show that for p=3 this phase transition disappears at a value of alpha′ considerably smaller than that estimated previously by Gao and Li. Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we determine the S1xS3 N=4 SYM phase diagram for sufficiently large `t Hooft coupling, and show that the critical point at which the Hawking-Page transition disappears (the correspondence point of Horowitz-Polchinski), occurs at gYM2Napprox20.5. The d=4 and d=7 black hole phase diagrams are also determined, and connection is made with the corresponding boundary CFTs. Finally, for flat and hyperbolic horizons, we show that the leading stringy or M-theory corrections do not give rise to any phase transition. For horizons compactified to a torus Tp or to a quotient of hyperbolic space, Hp/Gamma, we comment on the effects of light winding modes.












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