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On deformed gauge theories and their string/M-theory duals

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-12-07 v4

Abstract

We present general formulae for the TsT transformation (T-duality, shift, T-duality) of type II string backgrounds and open string boundary conditions. The TsT transformation provides a systematic procedure to find string theory duals of gauge theories with deformed products of fields in the lagrangian, and the duals can be analyzed by using transformed D-brane probes. As examples illustrating some features of the deformed theories, we consider the known backgrounds dual to non-commutative, dipole and beta-deformed N=4 Super Yang-Mills as well as new backgrounds dual to deformations of the recently proposed N=6 Chern-Simons-matter theory living on multiple M2-branes on an orbifold.

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@article{arxiv.0808.1271,
  title  = {On deformed gauge theories and their string/M-theory duals},
  author = {Emiliano Imeroni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.1271},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

34 pages, 2 figures; typos corrected, references and clarifications added; order of subsections changed, redundant solution in 6.3 removed; published version

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