TY - JOUR
T1 - Near-horizon solutions for D3-branes ending on 5-branes
AU - Aharony, Ofer
AU - Berdichevsky, Leon
AU - Berkooz, Micha
AU - Shamir, Itamar
N1 - Israel-U.S. Binational Science Foundation; Israel Science Foundation [1468/06]; German-Israeli Foundation (GIF) for Scientific Research and Development; Minerva Foundation; Federal German Ministry for Education and ResearchIt is a pleasure to thank Costas Bachas, Francesco Benini, Cyril Closset, Stefano Cremonesi, John Estes, Daniel Jafferis, David Kutasov, Mukund Rangamani, Cobi Sonnenschein, Shimon Yankielowicz, and especially Don Marolf for useful discussions. We thank Nizan Klinghoffer for assistance with the figures. We further thank Costas Bachas and John Estes for bringing to our attention the point in the last paragraph of Sec. IID, which was mentioned in a footnote in [5]. We also thank Don Marolf for the suggestion about a natural way to define a conserved 5-form charge in our solutions, as discussed in Sec. IVB. This work was supported in part by the Israel-U.S. Binational Science Foundation, by a research center supported by the Israel Science Foundation (Grant No. 1468/06), by the German-Israeli Foundation (GIF) for Scientific Research and Development, and by the Minerva Foundation with funding from the Federal German Ministry for Education and Research.
PY - 2011/12/2
Y1 - 2011/12/2
N2 - We construct the type IIB supergravity solutions describing D3-branes ending on 5-branes, in the near-horizon limit of the D3-branes. Our solutions are holographically dual to the four dimensional (4D) N=4 SU(N) supersymmetric-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory on a half line, at large N and large 't Hooft coupling, with various boundary conditions that preserve half of the supersymmetry. The solutions are limiting cases of the general solutions with the same symmetries constructed in 2007 by D'Hoker, Estes and Gutperle. The classification of our solutions matches exactly with the general classification of boundary conditions for D3-branes ending on 5-branes by Gaiotto and Witten. We use the gravity duals to compute the one-point functions of some chiral operators in the N=4 SYM theory on a half line at strong coupling, and we find that they do not match with the expectation values of the same operators with the same boundary conditions at small 'tHooft coupling. Our solutions may also be interpreted as the gravity duals of 4D N=4 SYM on AdS 4, with various boundary conditions.
AB - We construct the type IIB supergravity solutions describing D3-branes ending on 5-branes, in the near-horizon limit of the D3-branes. Our solutions are holographically dual to the four dimensional (4D) N=4 SU(N) supersymmetric-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory on a half line, at large N and large 't Hooft coupling, with various boundary conditions that preserve half of the supersymmetry. The solutions are limiting cases of the general solutions with the same symmetries constructed in 2007 by D'Hoker, Estes and Gutperle. The classification of our solutions matches exactly with the general classification of boundary conditions for D3-branes ending on 5-branes by Gaiotto and Witten. We use the gravity duals to compute the one-point functions of some chiral operators in the N=4 SYM theory on a half line at strong coupling, and we find that they do not match with the expectation values of the same operators with the same boundary conditions at small 'tHooft coupling. Our solutions may also be interpreted as the gravity duals of 4D N=4 SYM on AdS 4, with various boundary conditions.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84855241365
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.84.126003
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.84.126003
M3 - Article
SN - 1550-7998
VL - 84
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
IS - 12
M1 - 126003
ER -