Stability issues with baryons in AdS/CFT

Understand

We consider baryon vertices within the gauge/gravity correspondence for a class of curved backgrounds.

• The holographic description based on the N=4 SYM theory for SU(N) allows classical solutions representing bound states of k-quarks with k less than or equal to N.
• We construct the corresponding classical configurations and perform a stability analysis.
• We present the details for the theory at the conformal point and at finite temperature and show that there is a critical value of k, below which there is instability.