Quantum Field Theories Coupled to Supergravity: AdS/CFT and Local Couplings
Abstract
This article is based on my PhD thesis and covers the following topics: Holographic meson spectra in a dilaton flow background, the mixed Coulomb-Higgs branch in terms of instantons on D7 branes, and a dual description of heavy-light mesons. Moreover, in a second part the conformal anomaly of four dimensional supersymmetric quantum field theories coupled to classical N=1 supergravity is explored in a superfield formulation. The complete basis for the anomaly and consistency conditions, which arise from cohomological considerations, are given. Possible implications for an extension of Zamolodchikov's c-theorem to four dimensional supersymmetric quantum field theories are discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0711.0444,
title = {Quantum Field Theories Coupled to Supergravity: AdS/CFT and Local Couplings},
author = {Johannes Große},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.0444},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
PhD thesis, LMU Munich, 120p, 44 fig., original ver. avail. from urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-67614, i.e. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-67614; v2: 1 ref. corr., 5 added