Branes in AdS and pp-wave spacetimes

By Kostas Skenderis, Marika Taylor. 2002

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We find half supersymmetric AdS-embeddings in AdS_5 x S^5 corresponding to all quarter BPS orthogonal intersections of D3-branes with Dp-branes. A particular case is the Karch-Randall embedding AdS_4 x S^2. We explicitly prove that these embeddings are supersymmetric by showing that the kappa symmetry projections are compatible with half of the target space Killing spinors and argue that all these cases lead to AdS/dCFT dualities involving a CFT with a defect. We also find an asymptotically AdS_4 x S^2 embedding that corresponds to a holographic RG-flow on the defect. We then consider the pp-wave limit of the supersymmetric AdS-embeddings and show how it leads to half supersymmetric D-brane embeddings in the pp-wave background. We systematically analyze D-brane embeddings in the pp-wave background along with their supersymmetry. We construct all supersymmetric D-branes wrapped along the light-cone using operators in the dual gauge theory: the open string states are constructed using defect fields. We also find supersymmetric D1 (monopoles) and D3 (giant gravitons) branes that wrap only one of the light-cone directions. These correspond to non-perturbative states in the dual gauge theory.

Subfields: Mathematical Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Defect conformal field theory and locally localized gravity (2003, background): “Other studies of AdS/dCFT and defect quantum field theories (dQFTs) include [13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22]; there are many additional papers on the special case of AdS2 branes in AdS3.”
Superstring interactions in a pp -wave background (2002, background): “D-branes in the pp-wave background have recently been considered in [38-43], and open strings have been constructed in [44,45].”
Open Strings from N=4 Super Yang-Mills (2002, background): “D-branes in pp-wave backgrounds and open strings propagating on them have been studied in [8, 9, 10].”
Intersecting D3-branes and holography (2002, methodology): “The operator proposed in [10] to correspond to the open string light-cone vacuum is not really a chiral primary and gives negative light-cone energy.”
Exact half-BPS Type IIB interface solutions. I. Local solution and supersymmetric Janus (2007, methodology): “3 and probe D5 branes produces AdS/CFT duals to planar defect theories, where the extra degrees of freedom are produced by the dynamics of open strings spanned between the various intersecting branes [8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 10]. The original Janus solution of [14] is AdS/CFT dual to the interface Yang-Mi”
D-branes in Yang-Mills theory and emergent gauge symmetry (2004, neutral): “Vibrational spectrum of AdS5 branes: The fluctuation spectrum of the massless modes of spherical branes in AdS5 was computed in [17].”
Supersymmetric AdS3, AdS2 and bubble solutions (2006, background): “More generally by taking the same U but with different (1)In [18] probe membranes with world-volume AdS2 × S(1) were also considered but they are not the same as those being considered here as they preserve 1/4 of the supersymmetry.”
Wilson Loops of Anti-symmetric Representation and D5-branes (2006, background): “In general, the supersymmetry preserved by branes can be examined by the kappa symmetry projection 0 = (1+Γ)ξ as in [15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21].”
Lecture notes on holographic renormalization (2002, background): “This would be relevant for computing correlation functions in the defect RG flows [60, 61, 62] that arise in the context of the AdS/dCFT duality [63].”
All-genus calculation of Wilson loops using D-branes (2005, background): “the Killing spinors of AdS5 are written as 3 (see for example [21])”
Meson Spectroscopy in AdS/CFT with Flavour (2003, background): “This could have interesting applications in the context of the AdS/dCFT correspondence [16, 17, 7].”
Holographic Wilson loops (2006, methodology): “We will use conventions similar to those in [34].”
On gravitational description of Wilson lines (2006, neutral): “Starting from the original discovery of giant gravitons [7], there was a remarkable progress in understanding branes in AdS spaces [25], but most of the work was devoted to studying the brane probe approximation.”
On lightcone string field theory from Super Yang-Mills and holography (2002, background): “Open strings on pp waves arising from other branes were analyzed in [9, 10, 11] and other treatments of orbifolds appeared in [12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18].”
Mesons in gauge/gravity duals (2007, neutral): “explored in [129, 130, 131, 132, 133].”