Matteo Bertolini: Gauge/gravity correspondence

Matteo Bertolini: Lectures on the Gauge/String Correspondence

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Supersymmetry Gauge/String Correspondence

The kernel of the gauge/string correspondence

"Now stop conjecturing. Close your eyes and do the computation."

-- Paolo Di Vecchia (periodically since 2000)

	These lectures on the Gauge/String Correspondence were given at the International School for Advanced Studies, SISSA, in December 2002. They are aimed at advanced graduate students and present in a pedagogical manner the efforts aiming to extend the well known AdS/CFT correspondence to non-conformal supersymmetric gauge theories in four dimensions. These lectures are on the archive, hep-th/0303160, and are also published, Int.J.Mod.Phys.A18:5647-5712,2003. PDF

	Content 1. Introduction and Overview 2. Fractional Branes on Orbifolds Fractional Branes: Open String Perspective; Fractional Branes: Closed String Perspective; Gauge Theory from Gravity: Example 1. 3. Branes Wrapped on Calabi-Yau Spaces Wrapping Branes: the Topological Twist; Wrapping Branes: the Role of Gauged Supergravity; Gauge Theory from Gravity: Example 2. 4. Dualities and Connection to other Approaches Branes Suspended Between Branes; M5 Branes Wrapped on Riemann Surfaces; Fractional Branes on Conifolds; Dualities as Geometric Transitions; M-Theory on G2 Holonomy Manifolds.

	More Gauge/gravity Correspondence on the Web (reviews) N=2 four-dimensional gauge theories from fractional branes by Bertolini, Di Vecchia, Marotta. D-Branes on the Conifold and N=1 Gauge/Gravity Dualities by Herzog, Klebanov, Ouyang. The non-AdS/non-CFT correspondence, or three different paths to QCD by Aharony. Supergravity duals of supersymmetric four dimensional gauge theories by Bigazzi, Cotrone, Petrini, Zaffaroni. The Gauge/String Correspondence Towards Realistic Gauge Theories by Imeroni. The Duality Cascade by Strassler.

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More Gauge/gravity Correspondence on the Web (reviews)