CMSA General Relativity: New Phases of N=4 SYM

CMSA GENERAL RELATIVITY SEMINAR, SEMINARS, CMSA EVENTS

March 23, 2023 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10

Address: 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Speaker:

Prahar Mitra - University of Cambridge

We construct new static solutions to gauged supergravity that, via the AdS/CFT correspondence, are dual to thermal phases in N=4 SYM at finite chemical potential. These solutions dominate the micro-canonical ensemble and are required to ultimately reproduce the microscopic entropy of AdS black holes. These are constructed in two distinct truncations of gauged supergravity and can be uplifted to solutions of type IIB supergravity. Together with the known phases of the truncation with three equal charges, our findings permit a good understanding of the full phase space of SYM thermal states with three arbitrary chemical potentials. We will also discuss the status of hairy supersymmetric black hole solutions in this theory.

Based on: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.07134.pdf [hep-th]

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This seminar will be in person at CMSA, 20 Garden St, Room G-10, but will also be simultaneously broadcast over Zoom. For more information on how to join, please see: https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event_category/general-relativity/