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A tale of two cascades: Higgsing and Seiberg-duality cascades from type IIB string theory

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We construct explicitly new solutions of type IIB supergravity with brane sources, the duals of which are \( \mathcal{N} = {1} \) supersymmetric field theories exhibiting two very interesting phenomena. The far UV dynamics is controlled by a cascade of Seiberg dualities analog to the Klebanov-Strassler backgrounds. At intermediate scales a cascade of Higgsing appears, in the sense that the gauge group undergoes a sequence of spontaneous symmetry breaking steps which reduces its rank. Deep in the IR, the theory confines, and the gravity background has a non-singular end of space. We explain in detail how to generate such solutions, discuss some of the Physics associated with them and briefly comment on the possible applications.

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Conde, E., Gaillard, J., Núñez, C. et al. A tale of two cascades: Higgsing and Seiberg-duality cascades from type IIB string theory. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 145 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2012)145

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