Phase transitions of largeNorbifold gauge theories

2006/10/31 by Yasuaki Hikida
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2006/12/042

published as JHEP0612:042,2006 · 31 pages, 4 figures, minor changes, references added, typos corrected

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Abstract

We study the phase structures of N=4 U(N) super Yang-Mills theories on R x S³/Z_k with large N. The theory has many vacua labelled by the holonomy matrix along the non-trivial cycle on S³/Z_k, and for the fermions the periodic and the anti-periodic boundary conditions can be assigned along the cycle. We compute the partition functions of the orbifold theories and observe that phase transitions occur even in the zero 't Hooft coupling limit. With the periodic boundary condition, the vacua of the gauge theory are dual to various arrangements of k NS5-branes. With the anti-periodic boundary condition, transitions between the vacua are dual to localized tachyon condensations. In particular, the mass of a deformed geometry is compared with the Casimir energy for the dual vacuum. We also obtain an index for the supersymmetric orbifold theory.

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