%0 Journal Article %1 Festuccia2007Arrow %A Festuccia, Guido %A Liu, Hong %D 2007 %I Institute of Physics Publishing %J Journal of High Energy Physics %K ads-cft, thermalization %N 12 %P 027 %R 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/12/027 %T The arrow of time, black holes, and quantum mixing of large N Yang-Mills theories %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2007/12/027 %V 2007 %X Quantum gravity in an AdS spacetime is described by an SU(N) Yang-Mills theory on a sphere, a bounded many-body system. We argue that in the high temperature phase the theory is intrinsically non-perturbative in the large N limit. At any nonzero value of the 't Hooft coupling \$łambda\$, an exponentially large (in N^2) number of free theory states of wide energy range (of order N) mix under the interaction. As a result the planar perturbation theory breaks down. We argue that an arrow of time emerges and the dual string configuration should be interpreted as a stringy black hole.

@article{Festuccia2007Arrow, abstract = {{Quantum gravity in an AdS spacetime is described by an SU(N) Yang-Mills theory on a sphere, a bounded many-body system. We argue that in the high temperature phase the theory is intrinsically non-perturbative in the large N limit. At any nonzero value of the 't Hooft coupling \$\lambda\$, an exponentially large (in N^2) number of free theory states of wide energy range (of order N) mix under the interaction. As a result the planar perturbation theory breaks down. We argue that an arrow of time emerges and the dual string configuration should be interpreted as a stringy black hole.}}, added-at = {2019-02-26T10:37:35.000+0100}, archiveprefix = {arXiv}, author = {Festuccia, Guido and Liu, Hong}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2e036a766bc52577daa75ba883f4fbf87/acastro}, citeulike-article-id = {2077203}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0611098}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0611098}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2007/12/027}, day = 15, doi = {10.1088/1126-6708/2007/12/027}, eprint = {hep-th/0611098}, interhash = {88f51d1ce5c6ad073229da342a66d5b1}, intrahash = {e036a766bc52577daa75ba883f4fbf87}, issn = {1029-8479}, journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics}, keywords = {ads-cft, thermalization}, month = nov, number = 12, pages = 027, posted-at = {2012-08-10 14:45:43}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Institute of Physics Publishing}, timestamp = {2019-02-26T10:37:35.000+0100}, title = {{The arrow of time, black holes, and quantum mixing of large N Yang-Mills theories}}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2007/12/027}, volume = 2007, year = 2007 }