Topology change in commuting saddles of thermal N=4 SYM theory

Umut Gursoy, Sean A. Hartnoll, Timothy J. Hollowood +1

We study the large N saddle points of weakly coupled N=4 super Yang-Mills theory on S^1 x S^3 that are described by a commuting matrix model for the seven scalar fields {A_0, Φ_J}.…