Fivebranes from gauge theory
| dc.creator | Lin, Hai | |
| dc.creator | Maldacena, Juan | |
| dc.date | 2005-09-30 | |
| dc.date | 2006-08-10 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T10:30:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T10:30:20Z | |
| dc.description | We study theories with sixteen supercharges and a discrete energy spectrum. One class of theories has symmetry group $SU(2|4)$. They arise as truncations of ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang Mills. They include the plane wave matrix model, 2+1 super Yang Mills on $R \times S^2$ and ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang Mills on $R \times S^3/Z_k$. 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 non-zero $H$ 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 ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang Mills 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 superpoincare symmetry algebras in 2+1 or 1+1 dimensions with "non-central" charges. We finally discuss gravity duals of ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang Mills on $AdS_3 \times S^1$. | |
| dc.description | 50+24 pages, 9 figures, latex. v2: typos corrected, references added | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0509235 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0509235 | |
| dc.identifier | Phys.Rev.D74:084014,2006 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.74.084014 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/178100 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Fivebranes from gauge theory | |
| dc.type | text |