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Holographic coulomb branch solitons, quasinormal modes, and black holes

Holographic coulomb branch solitons, quasinormal modes, and black holes
Holographic coulomb branch solitons, quasinormal modes, and black holes
Four-dimensional N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, at a point on the Coulomb branch where SU(N) gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken to SU(N − 1) × U(1), admits BPS solitons describing a spherical shell of electric and/or magnetic charges enclosing a region of unbroken gauge symmetry. These solitons have been proposed as gauge theory models for certain features of asymptotically flat extremal black holes. In the ’t Hooft large N limit with large ’t Hooft coupling, these solitons are holographically dual to certain probe D3-branes in the AdS5 × S5 solution of type IIB supergravity. By studying linearised perturbations of these D3-branes, we show that the solitons support quasinormal modes with a spectrum of frequencies sharing both qualitative and quantitative features with asymptotically flat extremal black holes.
AdS/CFT correspondence, black holes
1029-8479
Kumar, Prem
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O'bannon, Andrew
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Pribytok, Anton
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Rodgers, Ronald
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Kumar, Prem
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O'bannon, Andrew
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Pribytok, Anton
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Rodgers, Ronald
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Kumar, Prem, O'bannon, Andrew, Pribytok, Anton and Rodgers, Ronald (2021) Holographic coulomb branch solitons, quasinormal modes, and black holes. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 (5), [109]. (doi:10.1007/JHEP05(2021)109).

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Four-dimensional N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, at a point on the Coulomb branch where SU(N) gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken to SU(N − 1) × U(1), admits BPS solitons describing a spherical shell of electric and/or magnetic charges enclosing a region of unbroken gauge symmetry. These solitons have been proposed as gauge theory models for certain features of asymptotically flat extremal black holes. In the ’t Hooft large N limit with large ’t Hooft coupling, these solitons are holographically dual to certain probe D3-branes in the AdS5 × S5 solution of type IIB supergravity. By studying linearised perturbations of these D3-branes, we show that the solitons support quasinormal modes with a spectrum of frequencies sharing both qualitative and quantitative features with asymptotically flat extremal black holes.

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Accepted/In Press date: 20 April 2021
Published date: 13 May 2021
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © 2021, The Author(s).
Keywords: AdS/CFT correspondence, black holes

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Local EPrints ID: 452600
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/452600
ISSN: 1029-8479
PURE UUID: 2be4bd9b-f6eb-4109-94e1-a9fdda855c6c
ORCID for Andrew O'bannon: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7862-783X
ORCID for Ronald Rodgers: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4826-6540

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Date deposited: 11 Dec 2021 11:28
Last modified: 15 Apr 2024 17:11

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Author: Prem Kumar
Author: Andrew O'bannon ORCID iD
Author: Anton Pribytok
Author: Ronald Rodgers ORCID iD

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