Tachyonic AdS/QCD, Determining the Strong Running Coupling and \beta-function in both UV and IR Regions of AdS Space
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)-like running coupling, , and its associated -function within a tachyonic Anti-de Sitter (AdS)/QCD framework. The bulk geometry is deformed through the introduction of a color dielectric function , associated with a tachyon field . This function governs the behavior of across all momentum scales by modifying the AdS background at both small and large values of the holographic coordinate .In the ultraviolet (UV) regime (small ), the deformation is driven by free tachyons and reproduces features consistent with perturbative QCD. In contrast, in the infrared (IR) regime (large ), tachyon condensation dominates, yielding behavior characteristic of nonperturbative QCD. This construction enables a unified description of the running coupling and its -function over the full range of momentum transfer , where denotes the space-like momentum scale.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2206.09952,
title = {Tachyonic AdS/QCD, Determining the Strong Running Coupling and \beta-function in both UV and IR Regions of AdS Space},
author = {Adamu Issifu and Elijah A. Abbey and Francisco A. Brito},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.09952},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
23 pages and 8 figures (Accepted for publication in Symmetry)