Nonabelian Probes In Holography
High Energy Physics - Theory
2019-11-05 v2 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We find the range of parameters for which the open string physics on probe Dq-branes in the near-horizon geometry of Dp-branes decouples from gravity, and is well-approximated by a (q+1)-dimensional supersymmetric Yang-Mills-Higgs theory on a rigid curved spacetime. We study the vacua of these theories, which include moduli spaces of instantons, monopoles, and vortices. This intricate structure is made possible through couplings to the background Ramond-Ramond flux. The probe brane theories we study provide holographic descriptions of defects in dual field theories.
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@article{arxiv.1907.10637,
title = {Nonabelian Probes In Holography},
author = {Sophia K. Domokos and Andrew B. Royston},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.10637},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
24 pages, no figures; v2: typo corrected, reference added, published version