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A Gravity Dual of the Chiral Anomaly

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-07 v5

Abstract

We study effects associated with the chiral anomaly for a cascading SU(N+M)×SU(N)SU(N+M)\times SU(N) gauge theory using gauge/gravity duality. In the gravity dual the anomaly is a classical feature of the supergravity solution, and the breaking of the U(1) R-symmetry down to Z2M{\bf Z}_{2M} proceeds via the Higgs mechanism.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0202056,
  title  = {A Gravity Dual of the Chiral Anomaly},
  author = {Igor R. Klebanov and Peter Ouyang and Edward Witten},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0202056},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

15 pages, derivation of vector mass corrected, main conclusions unchanged, a sign convention changed in section 4