Stability of strings dual to flux tubes between static quarks in N=4 SYM

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dc.creatorAvramis, Spyros D.
dc.creatorSfetsos, Konstadinos
dc.creatorSiampos, Konstadinos
dc.date2006-12-13
dc.date2007-06-16
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:23:23Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:23:23Z
dc.descriptionComputing heavy quark-antiquark potentials within the AdS/CFT correspondence often leads to behaviors that differ from what one expects on general physical grounds and field-theory considerations. To isolate the configurations of physical interest, it is of utmost importance to examine the stability of the string solutions dual to the flux tubes between the quark and antiquark. Here, we formulate and prove several general statements concerning the perturbative stability of such string solutions, relevant for static quark-antiquark pairs in a general class of backgrounds, and we apply the results to N=4 SYM at finite temperature and at generic points of the Coulomb branch. In all cases, the problematic regions are found to be unstable and hence physically irrelevant.
dc.description43 pages, 18 figures; v3: typos corrected
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0612139
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0612139
dc.identifierNucl.Phys.B769:44-78,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.01.026
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/194873
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleStability of strings dual to flux tubes between static quarks in N=4 SYM
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