Giant gravitons in the Schrödinger holography

We construct and study new giant graviton configurations in the framework of the non-supersymmetric Schrödinger holography. We confirm in the original Schrödinger spacetime, the picture discovered previously in the pp-wave limit of the geometry, namely that it is the giant graviton that becomes the energetically favored stable configuration compared to the point graviton one. Furthermore, there is a critical value of the deformation above which the point graviton disappears from the spectrum. The former fact leads also to the possibility of tunnelling from the point graviton to the giant graviton configuration. We calculate, explicitly, the instanton solution and its corresponding action which gives a measure of the tunnelling probability. Finally, we evaluate holographically the three-point correlation function of two giant gravitons and one dilaton mode as a function of the Schrödinger invariant.

Emergent Yang-Mills theory

We study the spectrum of anomalous dimensions of operators dual to giant graviton branes. The operators considered belong to the su(2|3) sector of $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory, have a bare dimension ∼ N and are a linear combination of restricted Schur polynomials with p ∼ O(1) long rows or columns. In the same way that the operator mixing problem in the planar limit can be mapped to an integrable spin chain, we find that our problems maps to particles hopping on a lattice. The detailed form of the model is in precise agreement with the expected world volume dynamics of p giant graviton branes, which is a U(p) Yang-Mills theory. The lattice model we find has a number of noteworthy features. It is a lattice model with all-to-all sites interactions and quenched disorder.