Frm Weak t Strng Cping in N4 SYM Thery文档.ppt

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Back-up slides * * * * * * * * * * * Conclusions The AdS/CFT correspondence makes a multitude of dynamical predictions about strongly coupled conformal gauge theories. They always appear to make sense, but are difficult to check quantitatively (e.g., the ? in the entropy). For non-BPS quantities in N=4 SYM, non-trivial interpolating functions appear. Recently, the conjectured integrability has led to determination of the cusp anomaly function. This provides strong new evidence for the validity of the AdS/CFT duality. The recent developments raise hope of further exact results, and perhaps an eventual proof of AdS/CFT duality. * The planar N=4 SYM is a rich and complicated theory, and some properties of its spectrum can depend dramatically on the value of the coupling. * The z-direction of AdS is dual to the energy scale of the gauge theory: small z is the UV; large z is the IR. In a pleasant surprise, because of the 5-th dimension z, the string picture applies even to theories that are conformal (not confining!). The quark and anti-quark are placed at the boundary of Anti-de Sitter space (z=0), but the string connecting them bends into the interior (z0). Due to the scaling symmetry of the AdS space, this gives Coulomb potential (Maldacena; Rey, Yee) * String Theoretic Approaches to Confinement It is possible to generalize the AdS/CFT correspondence in such a way that the quark-antiquark potential is linear at large distance. The 5-d metric should have a warped form (Polyakov): The space ends at a maximum value of z where the warp factor is finite. Then the confining string tension is * Semi-classical Nambu String Semi-classical quantization around long straight Nambu string predicts the quark-antiquark potential The coefficient of the universal Luescher term depends only on the space-time dimension d and is proportional to the Regge intercept: * Comparison with the Lattice DataLuescher, Weisz (2002) Lattic