On the boundary gauge dual of closed tensionless free strings in AdS

2004/07/31 by G. Bonelli, Giulio Bonelli
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2004/11/059

published as JHEP0411:059,2004 · 1+12 pages, v.2: typos, v.3 Published version

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Abstract

We consider closed free tensionless strings in AdS_d, calculate exactly the boundary/boundary string evolution kernel and find the string dynamics to be completely frozen. We interpret therefore the boundary configurations as Wilson loop operators in a confining phase. This is taken as an argument in favor to the dual weakly coupled abelian gauge theory being that of (d-4)-forms in the (d-1) dimensional boundary Minkowski space.

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