Towards lattice simulation of the gauge theory duals to black holes and hot strings

Understand

A generalization of the AdS/CFT conjecture postulates a duality between IIA string theory and 16 supercharge Yang-Mills quantum mechanics in the large N 't Hooft limit.

• At low temperatures string theory describes black holes, whose thermodynamics may hence be studied using the dual quantum mechanics.
• This quantum mechanics is strongly coupled which motivates the use of lattice techniques.
• We argue that, contrary to expectation, the theory when discretized naively will nevertheless recover continuum supersymmetry as the lattice spacing is sent to zero.