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Instantons and Emergent AdS_3 x S^3 Geometry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

Two dimensional N=(4,4) gauge theories flow to interacting superconformal field theories on their Higgs branch. We examine worldsheet instantons in these theories through the eyes of a D-brane construction. The effective instanton partition function is shown to reveal an emergent background AdS_3 x S^3 geometry.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0604090,
  title  = {Instantons and Emergent AdS_3 x S^3 Geometry},
  author = {Heng-Yu Chen and David Tong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0604090},
  year   = {2009}
}

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16 pages, 1 figure. v2 typos corrected

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