Published June 1, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

An infinite family of superconformal quiver gauge theories with Sasaki-Einstein duals

  • 1. Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy)
  • 2. Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 (United States)
  • 3. Department of Physics, CERN Theory Division, 1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)
  • 4. Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, One Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02318 (United States)

Description

We describe an infinite family of quiver gauge theories that are AdS/CFT dual to a corresponding class of explicit horizon Sasaki-Einstein manifolds. The quivers may be obtained from a family of orbifold theories by a simple iterative procedure. A key aspect in their construction relies on the global symmetry which is dual to the isometry of the manifolds. For an arbitrary such quiver we compute the exact R-charges of the fields in the IR by applying a-maximization. The values we obtain are generically quadratic irrational numbers and agree perfectly with the central charges and baryon charges computed from the family of metrics using the AdS/CFT correspondence. These results open the way for a systematic study of the quiver gauge theories and their dual geometries

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/1126-6708/2005/i=06/a=064/jhep062005064.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of High Energy Physics (ISSN 1029-8479) http://www.iop.org/

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
2005
Journal Issue
06
Journal Page Range
p. 064
ISSN
1126-6708

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