D-brane charges in gravitational duals of 2 + 1 dimensional gauge theories and duality cascades
D-brane charges in gravitational duals of 2 + 1 dimensional gauge theories and duality cascades
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2 1 维规范理论和对偶级联的引力对偶中的 D 膜电荷
DOI:
10.1007/jhep01(2010)072
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发表时间:
2009
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
P. Ouyang
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作者:
O. Aharony;Akikazu Hashimoto;S. Hirano;P. Ouyang
We perform a systematic analysis of the D-brane charges associated with string theory realizations of d = 3 gauge theories, focusing on the examples of the $ \mathcal{N} = 4 $ supersymmetric U(N) × U(N + M) Yang-Mills theory and the $ \mathcal{N} = 3 $ supersymmetric U(N) × U(N + M) Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theory. We use both the brane construction of these theories and their dual string theory backgrounds in the supergravity approximation. In the $ \mathcal{N} = 4 $ case we generalize the previously known gravitational duals to arbitrary values of the gauge couplings, and present a precise mapping between the gravity and field theory parameters. In the $ \mathcal{N} = 3 $ case, which (for some values of N and M) flows to an $ \mathcal{N} = 6 $ supersymmetric Chern-Simons-matter theory in the IR, we argue that the careful analysis of the charges leads to a shift in the value of the B2 field in the IR solution by 1/2, in units where its periodicity is one, compared to previous claims. We also suggest that the $ \mathcal{N} = 3 $ theories may exhibit, for some values of N and M, duality cascades similar to those of the Klebanov-Strassler theory.