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On effective action of string theory flux compactifications
We discuss four dimensional effective actions of string theory flux
compactifications. These effective actions describe four dimensional gravity
coupled to overall Kahler modulus of the compactification manifold. We
demonstrate the agreement between ten dimensional equations of motion of
supergravity with localized branes, and equations of motion derived from the
effective action. The agreement is lost however if one evaluates the full
effective action on the equations of motion for a subset of the supergravity
modes, provided these modes depend on-shell on the Kahler modulus.Comment: 25 pages; v2: refs adde
Gauge/string correspondence in curved space
We discuss Gubser-Klebanov-Polyakov proposal for the gauge/string theory
correspondence for gauge theories in curved space. Specifically, we consider
Klebanov-Tseytlin cascading gauge theory compactified on S^3. We explain regime
when this gauge theory is a small deformation of the superconformal N=1 gauge
theory on the world volume of regular D3-branes at the tip of the conifold. We
study closed string states on the leading Regge trajectory in this background,
and attempt to identify the dual gauge theory twist two operators.Comment: 26 pages, v2: refs adde
Anomaly Cancelations in Orientifolds with Quantized B Flux
We consider anomaly cancelations in Type IIB orientifolds on T^4/Z_N with
quantized NS-NS sector background B-flux. For a rank b B-flux on T^4 (b is
always even) and when N is even, the cancelation requires a 2^{b/2}
multiplicity of states in the 59-open string sector. We identify the twisted
sector R-R scalars and tensor multiplets which are involved in the
Green-Schwarz mechanism. We give more details of the construction of these
models and argue that consistency with the 2^{b/2} multiplicity of 59-sector
states requires a modification of the relation between the open string 1-loop
channel modulus and the closed string tree channel modulus in the 59-cylinder
amplitudes.Comment: Revtex 3.0, 34 pages, 2 figures, references adde
Viscosity Bound and Causality in Superfluid Plasma
It was argued by Brigante et.al that the lower bound on the ratio of the
shear viscosity to the entropy density in strongly coupled plasma is translated
into microcausality violation in the dual gravitational description. Since
transport properties of the system characterize its infrared dynamics, while
the causality of the theory is determined by its ultraviolet behavior, the
viscosity bound/microcausality link should not be applicable to theories that
undergo low temperature phase transitions. We present an explicit model of
AdS/CFT correspondence that confirms this fact.Comment: 27 pages, 5 figures. References added, typos fixe
Gauge/gravity correspondence in accelerating universe
We discuss time-dependent backgrounds of type IIB supergravity realizing
gravitation duals of gauge theories formulated in de Sitter space-time as a
tool of embedding de Sitter in a supergravity. We show that only the
gravitational duals to non-conformal gauge theories are sensitive to a specific
value of a Hubble parameter. We consider two nontrivial solutions of this type:
a gravity dual to six-dimensional (1,1) little string theory, and to a
four-dimensional cascading SU(N+M)xSU(N) supersymmetric gauge theory (related
to fractional D3-branes on a singular conifold according to Klebanov et al), in
accelerating universe. In both cases we argue that the IR singularity of the
geometry is regulated by the expansion of the gauge theory background
space-time.Comment: 13 pages, harvmac, v2: reference added, v3: D3,NS5 discussion
improved, PRD versio
Transport coefficients, membrane couplings and universality at extremality
We present an efficient method for computing the zero frequency limit of
transport coefficients in strongly coupled field theories described
holographically by higher derivative gravity theories. Hydrodynamic parameters
such as shear viscosity and conductivity can be obtained by computing residues
of poles of the off-shell lagrangian density. We clarify in which sense these
coefficients can be thought of as effective couplings at the horizon, and
present analytic, Wald-like formulae for the shear viscosity and conductivity
in a large class of general higher derivative lagrangians. We show how to apply
our methods to systems at zero temperature but finite chemical potential. Our
results imply that such theories satisfy universally in the
Einstein-Maxwell sector. Likewise, the zero frequency limit of the real part of
the conductivity for such systems is shown to be universally zero, and we
conjecture that higher derivative corrections in this sector do not modify this
result to all orders in perturbation theory.Comment: 29 pages, v2: Small text changes for clarity, typos correcte
Comments on supergravity dual of pure N=1 Super Yang Mills theory with unbroken chiral symmetry
Maldacena and Nunez [hep-th/0008001] identified a gravity solution describing
pure N=1 Yang-Mills (YM) in the IR. Their (smooth) supergravity solution
exhibits confinement and the U(1)_R chiral symmetry breaking of the dual YM
theory, while the singular solution corresponds to the gauge theory phase with
unbroken U(1)_R chiral symmetry. In this paper we discuss supersymmetric type
IIB compactifications on resolved conifolds with torsion. We rederive singular
background of [hep-th/0008001] directly from the supersymmetry conditions. This
solution is the relevant starting point to study non-BPS backgrounds dual to
the high temperature phase of pure YM. We construct the simplest black hole
solution in this background. We argue that it has a regular Schwarzschild
horizon and provides a resolution of the IR singularity of the chirally
symmetric extremal solution as suggested in [hep-th/0011146].Comment: 34 pages, LaTeX, v2: references added, v3: section 2 reduced, minor
clarifications, to be published in PR
Higher Derivative Corrections to R-charged Black Holes: Boundary Counterterms and the Mass-Charge Relation
We carry out the holographic renormalization of Einstein-Maxwell theory with
curvature-squared corrections. In particular, we demonstrate how to construct
the generalized Gibbons-Hawking surface term needed to ensure a perturbatively
well-defined variational principle. This treatment ensures the absence of ghost
degrees of freedom at the linearized perturbative order in the
higher-derivative corrections. We use the holographically renormalized action
to study the thermodynamics of R-charged black holes with higher derivatives
and to investigate their mass to charge ratio in the extremal limit. In five
dimensions, there seems to be a connection between the sign of the higher
derivative couplings required to satisfy the weak gravity conjecture and that
violating the shear viscosity to entropy bound. This is in turn related to
possible constraints on the central charges of the dual CFT, in particular to
the sign of c-a.Comment: 30 pages. v2: references added, some equations simplifie
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