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Stability issues with baryons in AdS/CFT

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-02-09 v2

Abstract

We consider baryon vertices within the gauge/gravity correspondence for a class of curved backgrounds. The holographic description based on the N=4 SYM theory for SU(N) allows classical solutions representing bound states of k-quarks with k less than or equal to N. We construct the corresponding classical configurations and perform a stability analysis. We present the details for the theory at the conformal point and at finite temperature and show that there is a critical value of k, below which there is instability. This may also arise when the baryon reaches a critical size. We also extend our treatment to magnetically charged baryon vertices.

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@article{arxiv.0807.0236,
  title  = {Stability issues with baryons in AdS/CFT},
  author = {Konstadinos Sfetsos and Konstadinos Siampos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.0236},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

v1: 22 Pages, 4 figures; v2: A reference corrected and a reference added

R2 v1 2026-06-21T10:56:34.041Z