Institute for Advanced Studies & Princeton University

QCD, strings and black holes: The Large N limit of field theories and gravity

Abstract: We study Yang Mills theories with a large number of colors. In this limit the theory becomes a theory of strings. We describe the string theory associated to the most supersymmetric version of Yang Mills theory. These strings live in a ten dimensional curved space. This leads to interesting connections between quantum gravity and QCD-like theories. For example, confinement is related to black holes.

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