Confinement and the AdS/CFT Correspondence

Avis; Barbón; Berman; Cvetič; David S Berman; Gregory; Gubser; Gubser; Hawking; Hawking; Hawking; Maldacena; Maulik K Parikh; Polyakov; Salam; Susskind; Witten; Witten

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Confinement and the AdS/CFT Correspondence

Authors: Avis
Barbón
Berman
Cvetič
David S Berman
Gregory
Gubser
Gubser
Hawking
Hawking
Hawking
Maldacena
Maulik K Parikh
Polyakov
Salam
Susskind
Witten
Witten
Publication date: 1 January 2000
Publisher: 'Elsevier BV'
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Abstract

We study the thermodynamics of the confined and unconfined phases of superconformal Yang-Mills in finite volume and at large N using the AdS/CFT correspondence. We discuss the necessary conditions for a smooth phase crossover and obtain an N-dependent curve for the phase boundary.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figure, RevTe