N = 2* Phase Transitions and Holography
High Energy Physics - Theory
2019-03-27 v1
Abstract
We clarify the relationship between probe analysis of the supergravity dual and the large-N solution of the localization matrix model for the planar N = 2* super-Yang-Mills theory. A formalism inspired by supergravity allows us to systematically solve the matrix model at strong coupling. Quite surprisingly, we find that quantum phase transitions, known to occur in the N = 2* theory, start to be visible at the third order of the strong-coupling expansion and thus constitute a perturbative phenomenon on the string worldsheet.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1901.02835,
title = {N = 2* Phase Transitions and Holography},
author = {Jorge G. Russo and Erik Widen and Konstantin Zarembo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.02835},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
36 pages, 8 figures