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Baryonic symmetries in AdS_4/CFT_3: an overview

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-03-23 v2

Abstract

Global symmetries play an important role in classifying the spectrum of a gauge theory. In the context of the AdS/CFT duality, global baryon-like symmetries are specially interesting. In the gravity side, they correspond to vector fields in AdS arising from KK reduction of the SUGRA p-form potentials. We concentrate on the AdS_4/CFT_3 case, which presents very interesting characteristic features. Following arXiv:1004.2045, we review aspects of such symmetries, clarifying along the way some arguments in that reference. As a byproduct, and in a slightly unrelated context, we also study Z-minimization, focusing in the HVZ theory.

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@article{arxiv.1102.5481,
  title  = {Baryonic symmetries in AdS_4/CFT_3: an overview},
  author = {Diego Rodriguez-Gomez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.5481},
  year   = {2011}
}

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Contribution accepted for the AHEP special issue on "Computational Algebraic Geometry in String and Gauge Theory"