From Marginal Deformations to Confinement
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-11 v4
Abstract
We consider type IIB supergravity backgrounds which describe marginal deformations of the Coulomb branch of N=4 super Yang-Mills theory with SO(4) x SO(2) global symmetry. Wilson loop calculations indicate that certain deformations enhance the Coulombic attraction between quarks and anti-quarks at the UV conformal fixed-point. In the IR region, these deformations can induce a transition to linear confinement.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0603142,
title = {From Marginal Deformations to Confinement},
author = {Changhyun Ahn and Justin F. Vazquez-Poritz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0603142},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
14 pages, 4 figures, minor corrections, comments and references added