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Instantons on D7 brane probes and AdS/CFT with flavour

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

Recent work on adding flavour to the generalized AdS/CFT correspondence is reviewed. In particular, we consider instanton configurations on two coincident D7 brane probes. These are matched to the Higgs branch of the dual field theory. In AdS_5 x S^5, the instanton generates a flow of the meson spectrum. For non-supersymmetric gravity backgrounds, the Higgs branch is lifted by a potential, which has non-trivial physical implications. In particular these configurations provide a gravity dual description of Bose-Einstein condensation and of a thermal phase transition.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0601130,
  title  = {Instantons on D7 brane probes and AdS/CFT with flavour},
  author = {Riccardo Apreda and Johanna Erdmenger and Nick Evans and Johannes Grosse and Zachary Guralnik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0601130},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages, 5 figures. Based on talk given by J. Erdmenger at the RTN Workshop``Constituents, Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe'',Corfu,Greece, 20-26th September 2005. Contribution to the Proceedings