Confinement and the AdS/CFT Correspondence
arXiv:hep-th/0002031 · doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(00)00592-X
Abstract
We study the thermodynamics of the confined and unconfined phases of superconformal Yang-Mills in finite volume and at large N using the AdS/CFT correspondence. We discuss the necessary conditions for a smooth phase crossover and obtain an N-dependent curve for the phase boundary.
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