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- Title
QCD AND STRING THEORY.
- Authors
KLEBANOV, IGOR R.
- Abstract
This talk begins with some history and basic facts about string theory and its connections with strong interactions. Comparisons of stacks of Dirichlet branes with curved backgrounds produced by them are used to motivate the AdS/CFT correspondence between superconformal gauge theory and string theory on a product of Anti-de Sitter space and a compact manifold. The ensuing duality between semi-classical spinning strings and long gauge theory operators is briefly reviewed. Strongly coupled thermal SYM theory is explored via a black hole in 5-dimensional AdS space, which leads to explicit results for its entropy and shear viscosity. A conjectured universal lower bound on the viscosity to entropy density ratio, and its possible relation to recent results from RHIC, are discussed. Finally, some available results on string duals of confining gauge theories are briefly reviewed.
- Subjects
STRING models (Physics); SUPERSTRING theories; ENTROPY; VISCOSITY; D-branes; SUPERMASSIVE black holes
- Publication
International Journal of Modern Physics A: Particles & Fields; Gravitation; Cosmology; Nuclear Physics, 2006, Vol 21, Issue 8/9, p1831
- ISSN
0217-751X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0217751X06032794