Mon, 19 Nov 2007

11:00 - 12:00
L3

Hedgehog black holes and the deconfinement transition

Matt Headrick
(Stanford University)
Abstract
Abstract: The deconfinement transition in gauge theories, in which the Polyakov loop acquires a non-zero expectation value, is described in AdS/CFT as the formation of a black hole in the dual graviational theory. We will explain how to compute the free energy diagram for the Polyakov loop by a constrained gravitational path integral, leading to a new class of black hole solutions.
Fri, 19 Oct 2007
14:15
DH 1st floor SR

Soft Derivatives

Prof. David Luenberger
(Stanford University)
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