Topology change in commuting saddles of thermal N=4 SYM theory

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2007/11/020zbMATH Open1245.81274arXivhep-th/0703100OpenAlexW1970425000MaRDI QIDQ445758FDOQ445758

Authors: Umut Gürsoy, Sean A. Hartnoll, Timothy J. Hollowood, S. Prem Kumar 

Publication date: 26 August 2012

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

Abstract: We study the large N saddle points of weakly coupled N=4 super Yang-Mills theory on S^1 x S^3 that are described by a commuting matrix model for the seven scalar fields {A_0, Phi_J}. We show that at temperatures below the Hagedorn/`deconfinement' transition the joint eigenvalue distribution is S^1 x S^5. At high temperatures T >> 1/R_{S^3}, the eigenvalues form an ellipsoid with topology S^6. We show how the deconfinement transition realises the topology change S^1 x S^5 --> S^6. Furthermore, we find compelling evidence that when the temperature is increased to T = 1/(sqrtlambda R_{S^3}) the saddle with S^6 topology changes continuously to one with S^5 topology in a new second order quantum phase transition occurring in these saddles.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0703100

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zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathcal N = 4\) super Yang-Mills theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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