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Multi instanton tests of holography

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Gauge theories living on stacks of D7-branes are holographically related to IIB gravitational backgrounds with a varying axion-dilaton field (F-theory). The axiondilaton field is generated by D7, O7 and D-instanton sources and can be written in terms of the chiral correlators of the eight dimensional gauge theory living on the D7-branes. Using localization techniques, we prove that the same correlators determine the gauge coupling of the four-dimensional \( \mathcal{N} = 2 \) supersymmetric SU(2) gauge theories living on the elementary D3-brane which probes the F-theory geometries.

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  1. I.N.F.N. Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133, Roma, Italy

    F. Fucito, J. F. Morales & D. Ricci Pacifici

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Fucito, F., Morales, J.F. & Pacifici, D.R. Multi instanton tests of holography. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 120 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2011)120

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