@article{bfd9d20b49c24a99afb5aec284ff30dc,
title = "The thermal free energy in large N Chern-Simons-matter theories",
abstract = "We compute the thermal free energy in large N U(N) Chern-Simons-matter theories with matter fields (scalars and/or fermions) in the fundamental representation, in the large temperature limit. We note that in these theories the eigenvalue distribution of the holonomy of the gauge field along the thermal circle does not localize even at very high temperatures, and this affects the computation significantly. We verify that our results are consistent with the conjectured dualities between Chern-Simons-matter theories with scalar fields and with fermion fields, as well as with the strong-weak coupling duality of the N = 2 supersymmetric Chern-Simons-matter theory.",
author = "Ofer Aharony and Simone Giombi and Guy Gur-Ari and Juan Maldacena and Ran Yacoby",
note = "Israel Science Foundation center for excellence grant; German-Israeli Foundation (GIF) for Scientific Research and Development; Minerva foundation; Federal German Ministry for Education and Research; IBM Einstein Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study; U.S. Department of Energy [DE-FG02-90ER40542]We would like to thank S. Banerjee, S. Hellerman, I. Klebanov, J. Maltz, G. Moore, S. Minwalla, M. Moshe, E. Rabinovici, S. Shenker, J. Sonnenschein and X. Yin for useful discussions and correspondence. OA is the Samuel Sebba Professorial Chair of Pure and Applied Physics, and he is supported in part by a grant from the Rosa and Emilio Segre Research Award. The work of OA, GG and RY was supported in part by an Israel Science Foundation center for excellence grant, by the German-Israeli Foundation (GIF) for Scientific Research and Development, and by the Minerva foundation with funding from the Federal German Ministry for Education and Research. OA gratefully acknowledges support from an IBM Einstein Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study. The work of JM was supported in part by U.S. Department of Energy grant #DE-FG02-90ER40542.",
year = "2013",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2013)121",
language = "الإنجليزيّة",
volume = "2013",
journal = "Journal of High Energy Physics",
issn = "1126-6708",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
number = "3",
}