Seminar series
Date
Mon, 03 Mar 2014
Time
12:00 -
13:00
Location
L5
Speaker
Toby Wiseman
Organisation
Imperial College
I will review the link between 1+p dimensional maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills and the black hole thermodynamics of Dp-branes via the gauge/string correspondence. The finite temperature behaviour of Dp-brane supergravity black holes looks very alien from the perspective of the dual strongly coupled Yang-Mills. However, I will argue that in a natural set of Yang-Mills variables, the classical moduli (which unfortunately are still strongly coupled), certain features of these thermodynamics become quite transparent. A physical picture then emerges of the black holes as a strongly interacting 'soup' of these moduli.