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Gravity duals of 2d supersymmetric gauge theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-12-07 v2

Abstract

We find new supergravity solutions generated by D5-branes wrapping a four-cycle and preserving four and two supersymmetries. We first consider the configuration in which the fivebranes wrap a four-cycle in a Calabi-Yau threefold, which preserves four supersymmetries and is a gravity dual to the Coulomb branch of two-dimensional gauge theories with N=(2,2) supersymmetry. We also study the case of fivebranes wrapping a co-associative four-cycle in a manifold of G_2-holonomy, which provides a gravity dual of N=(1,1) supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in two dimensions. We also discuss the addition of unquenched fundamental matter fields to these backgrounds and find the corresponding gravity solutions with flavor brane sources.

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@article{arxiv.0909.3106,
  title  = {Gravity duals of 2d supersymmetric gauge theories},
  author = {Daniel Arean and Eduardo Conde and Alfonso V. Ramallo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.3106},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

34 pages + appendices; v2: minor improvements