Holographic k-string Tensions in Higher Representations

Bradly Button; Seo Jun Lee; Leopoldo Pando Zayas; Vincent Rodgers; Kory Stiffler

Holographic k-string Tensions in Higher Representations

ORAL

Abstract

We investigate holographic k-string representations in 3+1 and 2+1 dimensions of field theories dual to confining geometries of the Maldacena-Nu\~nez and Maldacena-Nastase supergravity backgrounds via D5 branes with world volume fluxes. The D5 brane tensions are computed in qualitative agreement with totally symmetric and totally anti-symmetric representations with results from lattice QCD and the Hamiltonian method used by Karabali and Nair.

April 13, 2013, 2:21 PM – April 13, 2013, 2:33 PM

Authors

Bradly Button

University of Iowa
Seo Jun Lee

University of Iowa
Leopoldo Pando Zayas

University of Michigan
Vincent Rodgers

University of Iowa, Univ. of Iowa Dept. of Physics \& Astronomy; Iowa City, IA
Kory Stiffler

University of Maryland