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Gauge/gravity duality with a chiral N=(0,8) string defect

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v2

Abstract

We study the defect AdS/CFT correspondence for a system of N_c D3-branes intersecting certain configurations of D7-branes and O7-planes in 1+1-dimensions. The intersection is chiral, preserving N=(0,8) supersymmetry. The geometry produced by the 7-branes does not decouple in the low energy limit on the D3-branes; consequently the field theory must be considered in the curved background of the 7-branes, and the supergravity background is the fully backreacted solution accounting for both sets of branes. Although we can not work in the probe-brane limit, we still find a consistent defect mode-operator map. In our previous study of the field theory we found chiral D3-brane zero-modes that localized to the intersection. Here we obtain a dual supergravity description of the localized R-symmetry anomaly that these zero-modes produce.

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@article{arxiv.0804.2854,
  title  = {Gauge/gravity duality with a chiral N=(0,8) string defect},
  author = {Jeffrey A. Harvey and Andrew B. Royston},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.2854},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

35 pages; typos corrected; references and brief comments added; version published in JHEP

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