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Coulomb branch of N=4 SYM and dilatonic scions in supergravity

Daniel Elander, Maurizio Piai Orcid Logo, John Roughley

Physical Review D, Volume: 104, Issue: 4

Swansea University Authors: Maurizio Piai Orcid Logo, John Roughley

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DOI (Published version): 10.1103/physrevd.104.046003

Abstract

We find a parametrically light dilaton in special confining theories in three dimensions. Their duals form what we call a scion of solutions to the supergravity associated with the large-N limit of the Coulomb branch of the N = 4 Super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory. The supergravity description contains o...

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Published in: Physical Review D
ISSN: 2470-0010 2470-0029
Published: American Physical Society (APS) 2021
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57223
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Abstract: We find a parametrically light dilaton in special confining theories in three dimensions. Their duals form what we call a scion of solutions to the supergravity associated with the large-N limit of the Coulomb branch of the N = 4 Super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory. The supergravity description contains one scalar with bulk mass that saturates the Breitenlohner-Freedman unitarity bound. The new solutions are defined within supergravity, they break supersymmetry and scale invariance, and one dimension is compactified on a shrinking circle, yet they are completely regular. An approximate dilaton appears in the spectrum of background fluctuations (or composite states in the confining theory), and becomes parametrically light along a metastable portion of the scion of new supergravity solutions, in close proximity of a tachyonic instability. A first-order phase transition separates stable backgrounds, for which the approximate dilaton is not parametrically light, from metastable and unstable backgrounds, for which the dilaton becomes parametrically light, and eventually tachyonic.
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Issue: 4

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