Multiply wound Polyakov loops at strong coupling
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
We study the expectation value of a Polyakov-Maldacena loop that wraps the thermal circle k times in strongly coupled N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. This is achieved by considering probe D3 and D5 brane embeddings in the dual black hole geometry. In contrast to multiply wound spatial Wilson loops, nontrivial dependence on k is captured through D5 branes. We find N^{-2/3} corrections, reminiscent of the scaling behaviour near a Gross-Witten transition.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0603190,
title = {Multiply wound Polyakov loops at strong coupling},
author = {Sean A. Hartnoll and S. Prem Kumar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0603190},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
1+24 pages, 4 figures, LaTeX, improved discussion of results