scholarly journals A Study of Confinement for QQ- Potentials on D3, M2, and M5 Branes

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Edward Quijada ◽  
Henrique Boschi-Filho

We study analytically and numerically the interaction potentials between a pair of quark and antiquark on D3, M2, and M5 branes. These potentials are obtained using Maldacena’s method involving Wilson loops and present confining and nonconfining behaviours in different situations that we explore in this work. In particular, at the near horizon geometry, the potentials are nonconfining in agreement with conformal field theory expectations. On the other side, far from horizon, the dual field theories are no longer conformal and the potentials present confinement. This is in agreement with the behaviour of strings in flat space where the string mimics the expected flux tube of QCD. A study of the transition between the confining/nonconfining regimes in the three different scenarios (D3, M2, and M5) is also performed.

1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (06) ◽  
pp. 815-843 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. DUFF

There has recently been a revival of interest in anti-de-Sitter space (AdS), brought about by the conjectured duality between physics in the bulk of AdS and a conformal field theory on the boundary. Since the whole subject of branes, singletons and superconformal field theories on the AdS boundary was an active area of research about ten years ago, we begin with a historical review, including the idea of the "membrane at the end of the universe." We then compare the old and new approaches and discuss some new results on AdS 5 × S5 and AdS 3 × S3.


2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (05) ◽  
pp. 822-855 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUAN MALDACENA ◽  
CARLOS NUÑEZ

In the first part of this paper we find supergravity solutions corresponding to branes on worldvolumes of the form Rd×Σ where Σ is a Riemann surface. These theories arise when we wrap branes on holomorphic Riemann surfaces inside K3 or CY manifolds. In some cases the theory at low energies is a conformal field theory with two less dimensions. We find some non-singular supersymmetric compactifications of M-theory down to AdS5. We also propose a criterion for permissible singularities in supergravity solutions. In the second part of this paper, which can be read independently of the first, we show that there are no non-singular Randall-Sundrum or de-Sitter compactifications for large class of gravity theories.


1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (28) ◽  
pp. 1961-1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHUHEI MANO

A conformal field theory on the boundary of three-dimensional asymptotic anti-de Sitter spaces which appear as near horizon geometry of D-brane bound states is discussed. It is shown that partition functions of gravitational instantons appear as high and low temperature limits of the partition function of the conformal field theory. The result reproduces phase transition between the anti-de Sitter space and the BTZ black hole in the bulk gravity.


1993 ◽  
Vol 08 (31) ◽  
pp. 5537-5561 ◽  
Author(s):  
HITOSHI KONNO

We consider the Feigin-Fuchs-Felder formalism of the SU (2)k× SU (2)l/ SU (2)k+l coset minimal conformal field theory and extend it to higher genus. We investigate a double BRST complex with respect to two compatible BRST charges, one associated with the parafermion sector and the other associated with the minimal sector in the theory. The usual screened vertex operator is extended to the BRST-invariant screened three-string vertex. We carry out a sewing operation of these vertices and derive the BRST-invariant screened g-loop operator. The latter operator characterizes the higher genus structure of the theory. An analogous operator formalism for the topological minimal model is obtained as the limit l=0 of the coset theory. We give some calculations of correlation functions on higher genus.


2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (22) ◽  
pp. 1601-1611 ◽  
Author(s):  
JØRGEN RASMUSSEN

We consider Kerr–Newman–AdS–dS black holes near extremality and work out the near-horizon geometry of these near-extremal black holes. We identify the exact U (1)L× U (1)R isometries of the near-horizon geometry and provide boundary conditions enhancing them to a pair of commuting Virasoro algebras. The conserved charges of the corresponding asymptotic symmetries are found to be well-defined and nonvanishing and to yield central charges cL≠0 and cR = 0. The Cardy formula subsequently reproduces the Bekenstein–Hawking entropy of the black hole. This suggests that the near-extremal Kerr–Newman–AdS–dS black hole is holographically dual to a non-chiral two-dimensional conformal field theory.


Author(s):  
Sergei L. Lukyanov ◽  
Alexander B. Zamolodchikov

This is a two-part course about the integrability of two-dimensional non-linear sigma models (2D NLSM). In the first part general aspects of classical integrability are discussed, based on the O(3) and O(4) sigma-models and the field theories related to them. The second part is devoted to the quantum 2D NLSM. Among the topics considered are: basic facts of conformal field theory, zero-curvature representations, integrals of motion, one-loop renormalizability of 2D NLSM, integrable structures in the so-called cigar and sausage models, and their RG flows. The text contains a large number of exercises of varying levels of difficulty.


2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (25) ◽  
pp. 4497-4591 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL A. I. FLOHR

These are notes of my lectures held at the first School & Workshop on Logarithmic Conformal Field Theory and its Applications, September 2001 in Tehran, Iran. These notes cover only selected parts of the by now quite extensive knowledge on logarithmic conformal field theories. In particular, I discuss the proper generalization of null vectors towards the logarithmic case, and how these can be used to compute correlation functions. My other main topic is modular invariance, where I discuss the problem of the generalization of characters in the case of indecomposable representations, a proposal for a Verlinde formula for fusion rules and identities relating the partition functions of logarithmic conformal field theories to such of well known ordinary conformal field theories. The two main topics are complemented by some remarks on ghost systems, the Haldane-Rezayi fractional quantum Hall state, and the relation of these two to the logarithmic c=-2 theory.


1990 ◽  
Vol 05 (12) ◽  
pp. 2343-2358 ◽  
Author(s):  
KEKE LI

A method of constructing critical (fixed point) Landau-Ginzburg action from operator algebra is applied to several classes of conformal field theories, including lines of c = 1 models and the coset models based on SU(2) current algebra. For the c = 1 models, the Landau-Ginzberg potential is argued to be physically consistent, and it resembles a modality-one singularity with modal deformation representing exactly the marginal deformation. The potentials for the coset models manifestly possess correct discrete symmetries.


2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 2165-2173 ◽  
Author(s):  
FARDIN KHEIRANDISH ◽  
MOHAMMAD KHORRAMI

A general two-dimensional fractional supersymmetric conformal field theory is investigated. The structure of the symmetries of the theory is studied. Then, applying the generators of the closed subalgebra generated by (L-1,L0,G-1/3) and [Formula: see text], the two-point functions of the component fields of supermultiplets are calculated.


1994 ◽  
Vol 09 (08) ◽  
pp. 1287-1304 ◽  
Author(s):  
JÜRGEN FUCHS ◽  
MAXIMILIAN KREUZER

We search for a Landau–Ginzburg interpretation of nondiagonal modular invariants of tensor products of minimal n = 2 superconformal models, looking in particular at automorphism invariants and at some exceptional cases. For the former we find a simple description as Landau–Ginzburg orbifolds, which reproduces the correct chiral rings as well as the spectra of various Gepner type models and orbifolds thereof. On the other hand, we are able to prove for one of the exceptional cases that this conformal field theory cannot be described by an orbifold of a Landau–Ginzburg model with respect to a manifest linear symmetry of its potential.


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