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Four-dimensional \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, at a point on the Coulomb branch where SU(N) gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken to SU(N − 1) × U(1), admits BPS solitons describing a spherical shell of electric and/or magnetic charges enclosing a region of unbroken gauge symmetry. These solitons have been proposed as gauge theory models for certain features of asymptotically flat extremal black holes. In the ’t Hooft large N limit with large ’t Hooft coupling, these solitons are holographically dual to certain probe D3-branes in the AdS5 × S5 solution of type IIB supergravity. By studying linearised perturbations of these D3-branes, we show that the solitons support quasinormal modes with a spectrum of frequencies sharing both qualitative and quantitative features with asymptotically flat extremal black holes.
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Kumar, S.P., O’Bannon, A., Pribytok, A. et al. Holographic Coulomb branch solitons, quasinormal modes, and black holes. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 109 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2021)109
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