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Dualising the Baryonic Branch: Dynamic SU(2) and confining backgrounds in IIA

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-18 v1

Abstract

In this paper we construct and examine new supersymmetric solutions of massive IIA supergravity that are obtained using non-Abelian T-duality applied to the Baryonic Branch of the Klebanov-Strassler background. The geometries display SU(2) structure which we show flows from static in the UV to dynamical in the IR. Confinement and symmetry breaking are given a geometrical interpretation by this change of structure. Various field theory observables are studied, suggesting possible ways to break conformality and flow in N=1N=1 TNT_N and related field theories.

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@article{arxiv.1312.4945,
  title  = {Dualising the Baryonic Branch: Dynamic SU(2) and confining backgrounds in IIA},
  author = {Jerome Gaillard and Niall T. Macpherson and Carlos Nunez and Daniel C. Thompson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.4945},
  year   = {2015}
}

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27 pages plus various appendices