Z_N domain walls in hot N= 4 SYM at weak and strong coupling

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2009/01/076zbMATH Open1243.81137arXiv0812.0773OpenAlexW2952372326MaRDI QIDQ438351FDOQ438351

Authors: Adi Armoni, S. Prem Kumar, Jefferson M. Ridgway 

Publication date: 31 July 2012

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the tensions of domain walls in the deconfined phase of N=4 SUSY Yang-Mills theory on R^3 x S^1, at weak and strong coupling. We calculate the k-wall tension at one-loop order and find that it is proportional to k(N-k) (Casimir scaling). The two-loops analysis suggests that Casimir scaling persists to this order. The strong coupling calculation is performed by using the AdS/CFT correspondence. We argue that the k-wall should be identified with an NS5-brane wrapping an S^4 inside S^5 in the AdS-Schwarzschild x S^5 background in Type IIB string theory. The tension at strong coupling is compared with the weak coupling result. We also compare our results with those from lattice simulations in pure Yang-Mills theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.0773

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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