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D-Instantons and asymptotic geometries

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v3

Abstract

The large N limit of D3-branes is expected to correspond to a superconformal field theory living on the boundary of the anti-de Sitter space appearing in the near-horizon geometry. Dualizing the D3-brane to a D-instanton, we show that this limit is equivalent to a type IIB S-duality. In both cases one effectively reaches the near-horizon geometry. This provides an alternative approach to an earlier derivation of the same result that makes use of the properties of a gravitational wave instead of the D-instanton.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9803090,
  title  = {D-Instantons and asymptotic geometries},
  author = {E. Bergshoeff and K. Behrndt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9803090},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

17 pages, LaTeX, 1 figure, minor corrections and refs added

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