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Probing the Enhancon via Calculations in Supersymmetric Gauge Theory
We consider the N=2 gauge theory on N D7-branes wrapping K3, with D3-brane
probes. In the large N limit, the D7-branes blow up to form an enhancon shell.
We probe the region inside and outside the enhancon shell using the D3-branes,
and compute the probe metric using the Seiberg-Witten formalism. Supergravity
arguments suggest a flat interior up to 1/N corrections, and indeed our results
for the D3-brane probes are consistent with that. By including the dynamics of
the branes, these results, together with those of hep-th/0204050, demonstrate
the robustness of the enhancon mechanism beyond patching together of
supergravity solutions with D-brane source junction conditions.Comment: 20 pages, 2 figures, minor correction
Forces between stable non-BPS branes
As a step toward constructing realistic brane world models in string theory,
we consider the interactions of a pair of non-BPS branes. We construct a dyonic
generalization of the non-BPS branes first constructed by Bergman, Gaberdiel
and Sen as orbifolds of D-branes on T^4/\BZ_2. The force between a dyonic
brane and an electric brane is computed and is found to vanish at a nontrivial
critical separation. This equilibrium point is unstable. For smaller
separations the branes coalesce to form a composite dyonic state, while for
larger separations the branes run off to infinity. We suggest generalizations
that will lead to potentials with stable local minima.Comment: 17 pages, 2 figures, revte
Baryon Spectra and AdS/CFT Correspondence
We provide a detailed map between wrapped D3-branes in Anti-de Sitter (AdS)
backgrounds and dibaryon operators in the corresponding conformal field theory
(CFT). The effective five dimensional action governing the dynamics of AdS
space contains a gauge field that mediates interactions between
objects possessing R-charge. We show that the charge of these wrapped
D3-branes as measured by the gauge field matches the R-charge of the dibaryons
expected from field theory considerations. We are able, through a careful probe
brane calculation in an background, to understand the
exact relation between the mass of the wrapped D3-brane and the dimension of
the corresponding dibaryon. We also make some steps toward matching the
counting of dibaryon operators in the CFT with the ground states of a
supersymmetric quantum mechanical system whose target space is the moduli space
of D-branes. Finally, we discuss BPS excitations of the D3-brane and compare
them with higher dimension operators in the CFT.Comment: 24 pages, typos correcte
Strings on conifolds from strong coupling dynamics: quantitative results
Three quantitative features of string theory on AdS_5 x X_5, for any
(quasi)regular Sasaki-Einstein X_5, are recovered exactly from an expansion of
field theory at strong coupling around configurations in the moduli space of
vacua. These configurations can be thought of as a generalized matrix model of
(local) commuting matrices. First, we reproduce the spectrum of scalar
Kaluza-Klein modes on X_5. Secondly, we recover the precise spectrum of BMN
string states, including a nontrivial dependence on the volume of X_5. Finally,
we show how the radial direction in global AdS_5 emerges universally in these
theories by exhibiting states dual to AdS giant gravitons.Comment: 1+28 pages. 1 figur
A toy model for the AdS/CFT correspondence
We study the large N gauged quantum mechanics for a single Hermitian matrix
in the Harmonic oscillator potential well as a toy model for the AdS/CFT
correspondence. We argue that the dual geometry should be a string in two
dimensions with a curvature of stringy size. Even though the dual geometry is
not weakly curved, one can still gain knowledge of the system from a detailed
study of the open-closed string duality. We give a mapping between the basis of
states made of traces (closed strings) and the eigenvalues of the matrix
(D-brane picture) in terms of Schur polynomials. We connect this model with the
study of giant gravitons in AdS_5 x S^5. We show that the two giant gravitons
that expand along AdS_5 and S^5 can be interpreted in the matrix model as
taking an eigenvalue from the Fermi sea and exciting it very much, or as making
a hole in the Fermi sea respectively. This is similar to recent studies of the
c=1 string. This connection gives new insight on how to perform calculations
for giant gravitons.Comment: 19 pages JHEP, 4 figures. v2: comments added, typos fixed, additional
refs. v3: The paper has been largely revised, to make the relation as a limit
of N=4 SYM clear, also some proofs have been written in full rather than
sketched. This updated version reflects the changes that were made in the
published versio
Moduli Space Metric of N=2 Supersymmetric SU(N) Gauge Theory and the Enhancon
We compute the moduli space metric of SU(N) Yang-Mills theory with N=2
supersymmetry in the vicinity of the point where the classical moduli vanish.
This gauge theory may be realized as a set of N D7-branes wrapping a K3
surface, near the enhancon locus. The moduli space metric determines the
low-energy worldvolume dynamics of the D7 branes near this point, including
stringy corrections. Non-abelian gauge symmetry is not restored on the
worldvolume at the enhancon point, but rather the gauge group remains
U(1)^{N-1} and light electric and magnetically charged particles coexist. We
also study the moduli space metric for a single probe brane in the background
of N-1 branes near the enhancon point. We find quantum corrections to the
supergravity probe metric that are not suppressed at large separations, but are
down by 1/N factors, due to the response of the N-1 enhancon branes to the
probe. A singularity appears before the probe reaches the enhancon point where
a dyon becomes massless. We compute the masses of W-bosons and monopoles in a
large N limit near this critical point.Comment: 20 pages, 2 figure
Strings in flat space and pp waves from Super Yang Mills
We explain how the string spectrum in flat space and pp-waves arises from the
large limit, at fixed , of U(N) super Yang Mills.
We reproduce the spectrum by summing a subset of the planar Feynman diagrams.
We give a heuristic argument for why we can neglect other diagrams. We also
discuss some other aspects of pp-waves and we present a matrix model associated
to the DLCQ description of the maximally supersymmetric eleven dimensional
pp-waves.Comment: 36 pages, 5 figures. v3: minor typos corrected, references adde
Little String Theory and Heterotic/Type II Duality
Little String Theory (LST) is a still somewhat mysterious theory that
describes the dynamics near a certain class of time-like singularities in
string theory. In this paper we discuss the topological version of LST, which
describes topological strings near these singularities. For 5+1 dimensional
LSTs with sixteen supercharges, the topological version may be described
holographically in terms of the N=4 topological string (or the N=2 string) on
the transverse part of the near-horizon geometry of NS5-branes. We show that
this topological string can be used to efficiently compute the half-BPS F^4
terms in the low-energy effective action of the LST. Using the strong-weak
coupling string duality relating type IIA strings on K3 and heterotic strings
on T^4, the same terms may also be computed in the heterotic string near a
point of enhanced gauge symmetry. We study the F^4 terms in the heterotic
string and in the LST, and show that they have the same structure, and that
they agree in the cases for which we compute both of them. We also clarify some
additional issues, such as the definition and role of normalizable modes in
holographic linear dilaton backgrounds, the precise identifications of vertex
operators in these backgrounds with states and operators in the supersymmetric
Yang-Mills theory that arises in the low energy limit of LST, and the
normalization of two-point functions.Comment: 76 pages (56 pages + 4 appendices), 2 figures, harvmac. v2:
references and a clarification added. v3: small correction
Meson Spectroscopy in AdS/CFT with Flavour
We compute the meson spectrum of an N=2 super Yang-Mills theory with
fundamental matter from its dual string theory on AdS_5 x S_5 with a D7-brane
probe. For scalar and vector mesons with arbitrary R-charge the spectrum is
computed in closed form by solving the equations for D7-brane fluctuations; for
matter with non-zero mass m_q it is discrete, exhibits a mass gap of order m_q
/ sqrt(g_s N) and furnishes representations of SO(5) even though the manifest
global symmetry of the theory is only SO(4). The spectrum of mesons with large
spin J is obtained from semiclassical, rotating open strings attached to the
D7-brane. It displays Regge-like behaviour for J << sqrt(g_s N), whereas for J
>> sqrt(g_s N) it corresponds to that of two non-relativistic quarks bound by a
Coulomb potential. Meson interactions, baryons and `giant gauge bosons' are
briefly discussed.Comment: LaTeX, 39 pages, 4 figures, uses epsf. v2: typos corrected.
references adde
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