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From Marginal Deformations to Confinement

Changhyun Ahn, Justin F. Vazquez-Poritz

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0603142

Abstract

We consider type IIB supergravity backgrounds which describe marginal deformations of the Coulomb branch of N=4 super Yang-Mills theory with SO(4) x SO(2) global symmetry. Wilson loop calculations indicate that certain deformations enhance the Coulombic attraction between quarks and anti-quarks at the UV conformal fixed-point. In the IR region, these deformations can induce a transition to linear confinement.

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