The supergravity dual of a theory with dynamical supersymmetry breaking

By J. Maldacena, H. Nastase. 2001

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We study the large-N limit of a little string theory that reduces in the IR to U(N) = 1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills with Chern-Simons coupling k. Witten has shown that this field theory preserves supersymmetry if k ≥ N/2 and he conjectured that it breaks supersymmetry if k < N/2. We find a non-singular solution that describes the k = N/2 case, which is confining. We argue that increasing k corresponds to adding branes to this solution, in a way that preserves supersymmetry, while decreasing k corresponds to adding anti-branes, and therefore breaking supersymmetry.

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

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In Nuclear and High Energy Physics

1. Andrei Linde
2. R. Kallosh
3. T. Takayanagi
4. J. Gauntlett
5. J. Maldacena
6. M. Graña
7. E. Silverstein
8. D. Waldram

In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

1. J. Gauntlett
2. T. Takayanagi
3. D. Martelli
4. D. Waldram
5. Nakwoo Kim
6. Andrei Linde
7. R. Kallosh
8. U. Danielsson

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• Brane/Flux Annihilation and the String Dual of a Non-Supersymmetric Field Theory (2001, background): “One way to understand this [16] is to compare our nonsupersymmetric model with a hypothetical situation with all p anti-D3 branes replaced by −p D3-branes, i.”
• What if string theory has no de Sitter vacua? (2018, background): “When the D3 charge is (7)Alternatively one can imagine adding in a D3/D3 pair [69].”
• The Search for a Holographic Dual to AdS(3)xS(3)xS(3)xS(1) (2004, background): “27) Dual supergravity solutions [12,13,14,15,47] have been considered in the NS background frame (appropriate to the strong coupling gauge theory that appears in the IR of the Dbrane gauge theory).”
• Fractional quantum Hall effect via holography: Chern-Simons, edge states and hierarchy (2009, methodology): “A holographic background dual to a pure N = 1 Chern-Simons model has already been given in [34] and our model shares several similar properties such as the level-rank duality.”
• Fivebranes wrapped on SLAG three-cycles and related geometry (2001, methodology): “Indeed the explicit solutions constructed in [5, 10, 11] are of this type and it is worth emphasizing that the solutions in [10, 11] are non-singular examples of this kind of geometry.”
• Superstrings with intrinsic torsion (2003, background): “Solutions of this type were presented in [40, 41, 6] (see [6] for an explicit demonstration of [40]).”
• Unquenched Flavor in the Gauge/Gravity Correspondence (2010, background): “We will present the deformation of the background of [115, 116, 117] induced by a smeared distribution of massless flavors.”
• De Sitter vacua in string theory (2003, background): “The prefactor of 2 in (15) arises because the ambient five-form flux adds a repulsive energy equal to the tension for an D3 brane, see [42] (above equation (3.”