More on Polyakov Loops in the Deconfined Phase and Gauge/String Duality

Abstract

We consider a multi-string configuration that provides a new way to compute the expectation value of the Polyakov loop in a five-dimensional framework known as AdS/QCD. The obtained results are in reasonably good agreement with those obtained by lattice simulations for pure SU(3) gauge theory and also by the usual single string configuration.

Comments: 11 pages, 7 figures; v2: comments and references added, published version