Superconformal gauge theories and noncritical superstrings

Igor R. Klebanov; Juan M. Maldacena

doi:10.1142/S0217751X04020865

Superconformal gauge theories and noncritical superstrings

Igor R. Klebanov, Juan M. Maldacena

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We consider effective actions for six-dimensional noncritical superstrings. We show that the addition of N units of RR flux and of N_f space-time filling D5-branes produces AdS₅ × S¹ solutions with curvature comparable to the string scale. These solutions have the right structure to be dual to script N = 1 supersymmetric SU(N) gauge theories with N_f flavors. We further suggest bounds on the mass-squared of tachyonic fields in this background that should restrict the theory to the conformal window.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	5003-5015
Number of pages	13
Journal	International Journal of Modern Physics A
Volume	19
Issue number	29
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217751X04020865
State	Published - Nov 20 2004

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords

AdS/CFT correspondence
Noncritical string theory
Seiberg duality
Superconformal gauge theory

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