From Free Fields to AdS -- Thermal Case

TL;DR

This paper explores how thermal free field theory correlators encode dual bulk geometries, revealing the geometric nature of confinement and deconfinement phases through the structure of Euclidean AdS spaces.

Contribution

It extends the understanding of the field theory to bulk geometry correspondence to thermal cases, clarifying the role of Polyakov loops and Euclidean time identifications.

Findings

Confined phase corresponds to Euclidean AdS with periodic time.

Deconfined phase lacks a non-contractible Euclidean time circle.

Gluing of Schwinger parameters is consistent with non-thermal cases.

Abstract

We analyze the reorganization of free field theory correlators to closed string amplitudes investigated in hep-th/0308184 hep-th/0402063 hep-th/0409233 hep-th/0504229 in the case of Euclidean thermal field theory and study how the dual bulk geometry is encoded on them. The expectation value of Polyakov loop, which is an order parameter for confinement-deconfinement transition, is directly reflected on the dual bulk geometry. The dual geometry of confined phase is found to be AdS space periodically identified in Euclidean time direction. The gluing of Schwinger parameters, which is a key step for the reorganization of field theory correlators, works in the same way as in the non-thermal case. In deconfined phase the gluing is made possible only by taking the dual geometry correctly. The dual geometry for deconfined phase does not have a non-contractible circle in the Euclidean time direction.