Probing Supersymmetric Black Holes with Surface Defects

Yiming Chen, Matthew Heydeman, Yifan Wang +1

It has long been conjectured that the large $N$ deconfinement phase transition of $\mathcal{N}=4$ $\mathrm{SU}(N)$ super-Yang-Mills corresponds via AdS/CFT to the Hawking-Page transit…