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The String Dual of a Confining Four-Dimensional Gauge Theory

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We study N=1 gauge theories obtained by adding finite mass terms to N=4 Yang-Mills theory. The Maldacena dual is nonsingular: in each of the many vacua, there is an extended brane source, arising from Myers' dielectric effect. The source consists of one or more (p,q) 5-branes. In particular, the confining vacuum contains an NS5-brane; the confining flux tube is a fundamental string bound to the 5-brane. The system admits a simple quantitative description as a perturbation of a state on the N=4 Coulomb branch. Various nonperturbative phenomena, including flux tubes, baryon vertices, domain walls, condensates and instantons, have new, quantitatively precise, dual descriptions. We also briefly consider two QCD-like theories. Our method extends to the nonsupersymmetric case. As expected, the N=4 matter cannot be decoupled within the supergravity regime.

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Krylov Complexity for Plane Wave Matrix Model

hep-th · 2026-05-25 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

In reduced BMN matrix models, Lanczos coefficients scale linearly with the mass parameter, producing quadratic corrections to early-time Krylov complexity growth at the same order for both state and operator versions.

Branes

hep-th · 2026-04-20 · unverdicted · novelty 0.0

A review of branes in string theory covering their multiple descriptions and interaction phenomena.

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  • Krylov Complexity for Plane Wave Matrix Model hep-th · 2026-05-25 · unverdicted · none · ref 43 · internal anchor

    In reduced BMN matrix models, Lanczos coefficients scale linearly with the mass parameter, producing quadratic corrections to early-time Krylov complexity growth at the same order for both state and operator versions.

  • Gauge Symmetries, Contact Reduction, and Singular Field Theories gr-qc · 2025-12-03 · conditional · none · ref 35 · internal anchor

    Singular (gauge) theories with a global scaling symmetry can be reduced to an equivalent frictional theory, and the order of constraint-imposition and scale-reduction does not matter.

  • Supersymmetric AdS Solitons, Coulomb Branch Flows and Twisted Compactifications hep-th · 2025-11-22 · unverdicted · none · ref 5 · internal anchor

    Constructs holographic supergravity solutions for supersymmetric RG flows from 4D SCFTs to confining 3D SQFTs, with universal factorization of observables.

  • Krylov complexity for Lin-Maldacena geometries and their holographic duals hep-th · 2026-04-18 · unverdicted · none · ref 54 · internal anchor

    In the BMN matrix model and its holographic duals, Krylov basis states and Lanczos coefficients are uniquely fixed by the model's mass parameter.

  • Branes hep-th · 2026-04-20 · unverdicted · none · ref 90 · internal anchor

    A review of branes in string theory covering their multiple descriptions and interaction phenomena.