230 research outputs found
Counting Dyons in N=8 String Theory
A recently discovered relation between 4D and 5D black holes is used to
derive exact (weighted) BPS black hole degeneracies for 4D N=8 string theory
from the exactly known 5D degeneracies. A direct 4D microscopic derivation in
terms of weighted 4D D-brane bound state degeneracies is sketched and found to
agree.Comment: 10 page
The Non-Perturbative SUSY Yang-Mills Theory from Semiclassical Absorption of Supergravity by Wrapped D Branes
The imaginary part of the two point functions of the superconformal anomalous
currents are extracted from the cross-sections of semiclassical absorption of
dilaton, RR-2 form and gravitino by the wrapped D5 branes. From the central
terms of the two point functions anomalous Ward identity is established which
relates the exact pre-potential of the SUSY Yang-Mills theory with
the vacuum expectation value of the anomaly multiplet. From the Ward identity,
WDVV (Witten-Dijkgraaf-Verlinde-Verlinde) equation can be derived which is
solved for the exact pre-potential.Comment: 11 pages, late
Efficience de l'eau d'une culture de pomme de terre (Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Bintje) : 2. Application à un modèle de calcul d'assimilation nette du couvert végétal
National audienc
Gauge/Gravity Correspondence from Open/Closed String Duality
We compute the annulus diagram corresponding to the interaction of a
fractional D3 brane with a gauge field on its world-volume and a stack of N
fractional D3 branes on the orbifolds C^2 /Z_2 and C^3/Z_2 x Z_2. We show that
its logarithmic divergence can be equivalently understood as due either to
massless open string states circulating in the loop or to massless closed
string states exchanged between two boundary states. This follows from the fact
that, under open/closed string duality, massless states in the open and closed
string channels are matched into each other without mixing with massive states.
This explains why the perturbative properties of many gauge theories living on
the worldvolume of less supersymmetric and nonconformal branes have been
recently obtained from their corresponding supergravity solution.Comment: LaTeX, 28 page
Brane-Inspired Orientifold Field Theories
In this paper we consider the gauge theory living on the world-volume of a
stack of N D3-branes of Type 0B/\Omega' I_6(-1)^{F_{L}} and of its orbifolds
C^2/Z_2 and C^3/(Z_2 x Z_2). The gauge theories obtained in the three cases are
a brane realization of ``orientifold field theories'' having the bosonic sector
common with N=4,2,1 super Yang-Mills respectively. In these non-supersymmetric
theories, we investigate the possibility of keeping the gauge/gravity
correspondence that has revealed itself so successful in the case of
supersymmetric theories. In the open string framework we compute the
coefficient of the gauge kinetic term showing that the perturbative behaviour
of the orientifold field theory can be obtained from the closed string channel
in the large N limit, where the theory exhibits Bose-Fermi degeneracy.Comment: 27 pages, LaTe
Aspects of Open-Closed Duality in a Background B-Field II
It was shown in [hep-th/0503009], in the context of bosonic theory that the
IR singular terms that arise as a result of integrating out high momentum modes
in nonplanar diagrams of noncommutative gauge theory can be recovered from low
lying tree-level closed string exchanges. This follows as a natural consequence
of world-sheet open-closed string duality. Here using the same setup we study
the phenomenon for noncommutative gauge theory realised on a
fractional brane localised at the fixed point of . The IR
singularities from the massless closed string exchanges are exactly equal to
those coming from one-loop gauge theory. This is as a result of cancellation of
all contributions from the massive modes.Comment: 27 pages, 1 figure, references added, typos correcte
Non-perturbative gauge superpotentials from supergravity
We study U(N) SQCD with N_f <= N flavors of quarks and antiquarks by
engineering it with a configuration of fractional D3-branes on a C^3 / Z_2 x
Z_2 orbifold. In particular we show how the moduli space of the gauge theory
naturally emerges from the classical geometry produced by the D3-branes, and
how the non-perturbatively generated superpotential is recovered from
geometrical data.Comment: LaTeX, 18 pages, 4 figures; v2: published version with minor changes
and an added referenc
New checks and subtleties for AdS/CFT and a-maximization
We provide a cross-check of AdS/CFT and a-charge maximization for a four
dimensional =1 SCFT with irrational R-charges. The gauge theory is the low
energy effective theory of N D3-branes at the tip of the complex cone over the
first del Pezzo surface. By carefully taking into account the subtle issue of
flavor symmetry breaking at the fixed point, we show, using a-maximization,
that this theory has in fact irrational central charge and R-charges. Our
results perfectly match with those inherited from the recently discovered
supergravity dual background. Along analogous lines, we make novel predictions
for the still unknown AdS dual of the quiver theory for the second del Pezzo
surface. This should flow to a SCFT with irrational charges, too. All of our
results differ from previous findings in the literature and outline interesting
subtleties in a-maximization and AdS/CFT techniques overlooked in the past.Comment: Latex, 16 pagex, 2 figures; v2, comments and a reference added; v3,
typos correcte
Bethe Ansatz Equations for General Orbifolds of N=4 SYM
We consider the Bethe Ansatz Equations for orbifolds of N =4 SYM w.r.t. an
arbitrary discrete group. Techniques used for the Abelian orbifolds can be
extended to the generic non-Abelian case with minor modifications. We show how
to make a transition between the different notations in the quiver gauge
theory.Comment: LaTeX, 66 pages, 9 eps figures, minor corrections, references adde
- …