On the gluon operator effective potential in holographic Yang-Mills theory

Understand

The holographic formalism is applied to the calculation of the effective potential for the scalar glueball operator.

• Three different versions of this operator are defined, and for each we compute the associated effective potential and discuss its properties and scheme ambiguities.
• Contact is made to earlier attempts to guess this effective potential from the conformal anomaly.
• We apply our results to the Improved Holographic QCD model calculating the glueball condensate.