An infinite family of superconformal quiver gauge theories with Sasaki-Einstein duals
Creators
- 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/Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Journal Volume
- 2005
- Journal Issue
- 06
- Journal Page Range
- p. 064
- ISSN
- 1126-6708
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Italy
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36096362
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BARYONS; CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; DUALITY; GAUGE INVARIANCE; GEOMETRY; ITERATIVE METHODS; METRICS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SMOOTH MANIFOLDS; SYMMETRY
- Descriptors DEC
- CALCULATION METHODS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; HADRONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MANIFOLDS; MATHEMATICS