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Stability of strings binding heavy-quark mesons

Joshua J. Friess, Steven S. Gubser, Georgios Michalogiorgakis, Silviu S. Pufu

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0609137

Abstract

We investigate the stability against small deformations of strings dangling into AdS5-Schwarzschild from a moving heavy quark-anti-quark pair. We speculate that emission of massive string states may be an important part of the evolution of certain unstable configurations.

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