On Aspects of Holographic Thermal QCD at Finite Coupling

Abstract

Some Physics (obtaining lattice-compatible deconfinement temperature, some transport coefficients and Einstein's relation) and Mathematics (torsion classes and supersymmetry) issues pertaining to the delocalized SYZ type IIA mirror of [1] and its M theory uplift in the MQGP limit of [2], are discussed.

Comments: v3: 1+63 pages, LaTeX, title slightly modified, large amounts of explanatory material added and text rearranged though Results are unchanged, references added, to appear in NPB (the journal version also includes two figs excluded in the arxiv version due to size constraints). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:hep-th/0211102 by other authors