Fivebranes from gauge theory
- Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 (United States)
- Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 (United States)
We study theories with 16 supercharges and a discrete energy spectrum. One class of theories has symmetry group SU(2|4). They arise as truncations of N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. They include the plane-wave matrix model, 2+1 super Yang-Mills theory on RxS{sup 2} and N=4 super Yang-Mills theory on RxS{sup 3}/Z{sub k}. We explain how to obtain their gravity duals in a unified way. We explore the regions of the geometry that are relevant for the study of some 1/2 BPS and near BPS states. This leads to a class of two dimensional (4,4) supersymmetric sigma models with nonzero H flux, including a massive deformed WZW model. We show how to match some features of the string spectrum with the Yang-Mills theory. The other class of theories are also connected to N=4 super Yang-Mills theory and arise by making some of the transverse scalars compact. Their vacua are characterized by a 2D Yang-Mills theory or 3D Chern-Simons theory. These theories realize peculiar super-Poincare symmetry algebras in 2+1 or 1+1 dimensions with ''noncentral'' charges. We finally discuss gravity duals of N=4 super Yang-Mills theory on AdS{sub 3}xS{sup 1}.
- OSTI ID:
- 20871406
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 74, Issue 8; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.74.084014; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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