Speaker
Lorenzo Di Pietro
(Trieste University, Italy)
Description
I will discuss four dimensional non-abelian gauge theories in the background of Anti-de Sitter space. I will review how, imposing a Dirichlet boundary condition at small radius, there is a deconfinement/confinement transition as the radius is increased, while imposing a Neumann boundary condition a continuous extrapolation to the flat space limit is expected. I will then review recent investigations of this setup using both perturbation theory and nonperturbative methods.
