Deforming baryons into confining strings

2004/05/31 by Sean A. Hartnoll, Rubén Portugues, Ruben Portugues · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.70.066007

published as Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 066007 · 1+13 pages. LaTeX. 3 Figures. Factor of 2N fixed to N for the IIA background. Minor changes to text

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Abstract

We find explicit probe D3-brane solutions in the infrared of the Maldacena-Nu\~nez background. The solutions describe deformed baryon vertices: q external quarks are separated in spacetime from the remaining N\ensuremath-q. As the separation is taken to infinity we recover known solutions describing infinite confining strings in N=1 gauge theory. We present results for the mass of finite confining strings as a function of length. We also find probe D2-brane solutions in a confining type IIA geometry, the reduction of a G₂ holonomy M theory background. The relation between these deformed baryons and confining strings is not as straightforward.

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