Baryons and domain walls in an N=1 superconformal gauge theory

Steven S. Gubser, Igor R. Klebanov

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Abstract

Coincident D3-branes placed at a conical singularity are related to string theory on AdS5XX5, for a suitable five-dimensional Einstein manifold X5. For the example of the conifold, which leads to X5 = T1,1 = [SU(2) X SU(2)]/U(1), the infrared limit of the theory on N D3-branes was constructed recently. This is an script N sign=1 supersymmetric SU(N) X SU(N) gauge theory coupled to four bifundamental chiral superfields and supplemented by a quartic superpotential which becomes marginal in the infrared. In this paper we consider D3-branes wrapped over the 3-cycles of T1,1 and identify them with baryon-like chiral operators built out of products of N chiral superfields. The supergravity calculation of the dimensions of such operators agrees with field theory. We also study the D5-brane wrapped over a 2-cycle of T1,1, which acts as a domain wall in AdS5. We argue that upon crossing it the gauge group changes to SU(N) X SU(N+1). This suggests a construction of supergravity duals of script N sign=1 supersymmetric SU(N1) X SU(N2) gauge theories.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number125025
Pages (from-to)1250251-1250257
Number of pages7
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume58
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 15 1998

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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