Anomalies, RG-flows and Open/Closed String Duality
High Energy Physics - Theory
2017-08-23 v1
Abstract
We discuss the interplay between IR and UV divergences in vacuum configurations with open and unoriented strings. We establish a general one-to-one correspondence between anomalies and R-R tadpoles associated to sectors with non-trivial Witten index. The result does not require any supersymmetry to be preserved by the configuration. Under very mild conditions of supersymmetry, a similar correspondence is found between NS-NS tadpoles and RG-flows in gauge theories on D-branes and O-planes. We briefly comment on the AdS/CFT counterpart of the results.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0101104,
title = {Anomalies, RG-flows and Open/Closed String Duality},
author = {Massimo Bianchi and Jose F. Morales},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0101104},
year = {2017}
}
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6+1 pages, Latex, Talk delivered by J.F. Morales at the Ninth Marcel Grossman Meeting, Rome July 2-8, 2000