Monte Carlo Studies of the GWW Phase Transition in Large-N Gauge Theories

dc.creatorAzuma, Takehiro
dc.creatorBasu, Pallab
dc.creatorWadia, Spenta R.
dc.date2007-10-31
dc.date2007-12-24
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:12:49Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:12:49Z
dc.descriptionIn the study of the small ten-dimensional Schwarzschild blackhole, the blackhole to string transition is an important problem. In hep-th/0605041, a possible identification is made between the Gross-Witten-Wadia (GWW) type third-order large-N phase transition in the boundary gauge theory and the string-black hole transition in the bulk. In this paper, we exhibit the existence of the GWW transition by Monte Carlo simulation in the zero mode bosonic action of the finite-temperature N=4 SYM theory on S^3. Exhibiting this transition in the truncated but highly non-trivial gauge theory implies that in the vicinity of the critical temperature T_c, the system goes critical, and the fluctuations give rise to universal formulas derived in hep-th/0605041 We also discuss the issue of SO(6) R-symmetry breaking.
dc.description15 pages, 7 figures, eq. (3.10) corrected (v3), reference added (v4)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0710.5873
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0710.5873
dc.identifierPhys.Lett.B659:676-682,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.physletb.2007.11.088
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/191508
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleMonte Carlo Studies of the GWW Phase Transition in Large-N Gauge Theories
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