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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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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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ISSN: 2470-0010 2470-0029
Published: American Physical Society (APS) 2021
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title Coulomb branch of N=4 SYM and dilatonic scions in supergravity
spellingShingle Coulomb branch of N=4 SYM and dilatonic scions in supergravity
Maurizio Piai
John Roughley
title_short Coulomb branch of N=4 SYM and dilatonic scions in supergravity
title_full Coulomb branch of N=4 SYM and dilatonic scions in supergravity
title_fullStr Coulomb branch of N=4 SYM and dilatonic scions in supergravity
title_full_unstemmed Coulomb branch of N=4 SYM and dilatonic scions in supergravity
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description 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.
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