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Small AdS black holes from SYM

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-03-24 v1

Abstract

We provide a characterization of the set of configurations in N=4 SYM theory that are dual to small AdS black holes. Our construction shows that the black hole dual states are approximately thermal on a SU(M) subset of degrees of freedom of a SU(N) gauge theory. M is determined dynamically and the black hole degrees of freedom are dynamically insulated from the rest. These states are localized on the S^5 and have dynamical processes that correspond to matter absorption that make them behave as black objects.

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@article{arxiv.0809.0712,
  title  = {Small AdS black holes from SYM},
  author = {Curtis T. Asplund and David Berenstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.0712},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, revtex

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