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Holographic effective field theories

Journal of High Energy Physics volume 2016, Article number: 166 (2016) Cite this article

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Abstract

We derive the four-dimensional low-energy effective field theory governing the moduli space of strongly coupled superconformal quiver gauge theories associated with D3-branes at Calabi-Yau conical singularities in the holographic regime of validity. We use the dual supergravity description provided by warped resolved conical geometries with mobile D3-branes. Information on the baryonic directions of the moduli space is also obtained by using wrapped Euclidean D3-branes. We illustrate our general results by discussing in detail their application to the Klebanov-Witten model.

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica ed Astronomia “Galileo Galilei”, Università di Padova, and INFN — Sezione di Padova, Via Marzolo 8, I-35131, Padova, Italy

    Luca Martucci

  2. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, and INFN — Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126, Milano, Italy

    Alberto Zaffaroni

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Martucci, L., Zaffaroni, A. Holographic effective field theories. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 166 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2016)166

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Keywords

  • AdS-CFT Correspondence
  • Effective field theories
  • Conformal Field Models in String Theory