Year: 2016
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The gauge theory/gravity correspondence encompasses a variety of different specific dualities.We study examples of both Super Yang-Mills/type IIB string theory and Super Chern-Simons-matter/type IIA string theory dualities.We focus on the recent ABJM correspondence as an example of the latter.We conduct a detailed investigation into the properties of D-branes and their operator duals.The D2-brane dual giant graviton on AdS 4 ×CP 3 is initially studied: we calculate its spectrum of small fluctuations and consider open string excitations in both the short pp-wave and long semiclassical string limits.We extend Mikhailov's holomorphic curve construction to build a giant graviton on AdS 5 × T 1,1 .This is a non-spherical D3-brane configuration, which factorizes at maximal size into two dibaryons on the base manifold T 1,1 .We present a fluctuation analysis and also consider attaching open strings to the giant's worldvolume.We finally propose CONTENTS vi 5.2 Fluctuation analysis . . . . . . . .
Author: Andrea Prinsloo
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2256498459