TY - JOUR
T1 - Supergravity and worldvolume physics in the dual description of N = 1* theory
AU - Kinar, Yaron
AU - Loewy, Amit
AU - Schreiber, Ehud
AU - Sonnenschein, Jacob
AU - Yankielowicz, Shimon
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - We look at the string theory dual of the N = 1* theory, involving 5-branes, which was recently proposed by Polchinski and Strassler [1]. We argue that SUGRA alone is not enough in order to obtain the correct screening and confinement behaviour of the various massive field theory vacua, but that appropriate worldvolume phenomena of the 5-branes must be included. We therefore work within the SUGRA approximation, also taking into account the brane dynamics, and classify all the SUGRA configurations. In this level of analysis, we find multiple valid configurations for every given vacuum. We discuss some possible resolutions of this perplexing result. We also consider the spectrum of asymptotic states, and discuss the global symmetries of the SUGRA solution of the N = 1* theory and of the N = 0* theory obtained from it by explicit supersymmetry breaking.
AB - We look at the string theory dual of the N = 1* theory, involving 5-branes, which was recently proposed by Polchinski and Strassler [1]. We argue that SUGRA alone is not enough in order to obtain the correct screening and confinement behaviour of the various massive field theory vacua, but that appropriate worldvolume phenomena of the 5-branes must be included. We therefore work within the SUGRA approximation, also taking into account the brane dynamics, and classify all the SUGRA configurations. In this level of analysis, we find multiple valid configurations for every given vacuum. We discuss some possible resolutions of this perplexing result. We also consider the spectrum of asymptotic states, and discuss the global symmetries of the SUGRA solution of the N = 1* theory and of the N = 0* theory obtained from it by explicit supersymmetry breaking.
KW - AdS-CFT Correspondance
KW - Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories
KW - Confinement
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AN - SCOPUS:33744937358
SN - 1029-8479
VL - 5
SP - XXIII-24
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 3
ER -