Coupling Constant Dependence in the Thermodynamics of N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Details Coupling Constant Dependence in the Thermodynamics of N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory Coupling Constant Dependence in the Thermodynamics of N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

1998-05-25

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9805156v4

Nucl.Phys.B534:202-222,1998

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

24 pages; a paragraph about the 5-form background added in section 3; in the Note Added we clarify the meaning of the metric f

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00514-8

The free energy of the maximally supersymmetric SU(N) gauge theory at temperature T is expected to scale, in the large N limit, as N^2 T^4 times a function of the 't Hooft coupling, f(g_{YM}^2 N). In the strong coupling limit the free energy has been deduced from the near-extremal 3-brane geometry, and its normalization has turned out to be 3/4 times that found in the weak coupling limit. In this paper we calculate the leading correction to this result in inverse powers of the coupling, which originates from the R^4 terms in the tree level effective action of type IIB string theory. The correction to 3/4 is positive and of order (g_{YM}^2 N)^{-3/2}. Thus, f(g_{YM}^2 N) increases as the 't Hooft coupling is decreased, in accordance with the expectation that it should be approaching 1 in the weak coupling limit. We also discuss similar corrections for other conformal theories describing coincident branes. In particular, we suggest that the coupling-independence of the near extremal entropy for D1-branes bound to D5-branes is related to the vanishing of the Weyl tensor of AdS_3\times S^3.

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