Open AccessOrbiting Strings in AdS Black Holes and Script N = 4 SYM at Finite Temperature
Author(s) -
Adi Armoni,
J.L.F. Barbón,
Anastasios C. Petkou
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of high energy physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.998
H-Index - 261
eISSN - 1126-6708
pISSN - 1029-8479
DOI - 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/06/058
Subject(s) - physics , glueball , angular momentum , ads black hole , string (physics) , limiting , black hole (networking) , spin (aerodynamics) , quantum electrodynamics , string theory , particle physics , mathematical physics , quantum mechanics , quantum chromodynamics , thermodynamics , phase transition , mechanical engineering , computer network , routing protocol , routing (electronic design automation) , link state routing protocol , computer science , engineering
Following Gubser, Klebanov and Polyakov [hep-th/0204051], we study strings inAdS black hole backgrounds. With respect to the pure AdS case, rotating stringsare replaced by orbiting strings. We interpret these orbiting strings as CFTstates of large spin similar to glueballs propagating through a gluon plasma.The energy and the spin of the orbiting string configurations are associatedwith the energy and the spin of states in the dual finite temperature N=4 SYMtheory. We analyse in particular the limiting cases of short and long strings.Moreover, we perform a thermodynamic study of the angular momentum transferfrom the glueball to the plasma by considering string orbits around rotatingAdS black holes. We find that standard expectations, such as the completethermal dissociation of the glueball, are borne out after subtle properties ofrotating AdS black holes are taken into account.Comment: 17 pages, 1 figure. v2,3 minor refinements. JHEP versio
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