Supergravity and a Confining Gauge Theory: Duality Cascades and $\chi$SB-Resolution of Naked Singularities

Igor R. Klebanov (Princeton); Matthew J. Strassler (IAS)

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Supergravity and a Confining Gauge Theory: Duality Cascades and $\chi$SB-Resolution of Naked Singularities

Igor R. Klebanov (Princeton), Matthew J. Strassler (IAS)

High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 24 Jul 2000 · 54 references

Pith's verdict: A landmark paper: the duality cascade and the closed-form warped deformed conifold are both real and both new, and the rigor gaps are standard-technique gaps rather than cracks in the result.

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CitationIgor R. Klebanov (Princeton), Matthew J. Strassler (IAS). "Supergravity and a Confining Gauge Theory: Duality Cascades and $\chi$SB-Resolution of Naked Singularities." arXiv:hep-th/0007191 (2000). https://pith.science/paper/V5YULMVJ

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This is the paper that turned the Klebanov-Tseytlin naked singularity into a feature. Two things are genuinely new relative to [11] and [12]: the reading of the decreasing five-form flux as a Seiberg duality cascade with N -> N-M, and the closed-form warped deformed conifold (Eqs. 86, 87, 90) that resolves the singularity, breaks Z_{2M} to Z_2, and confines. The field-theory side is derived independently — beta functions, duality matching, the Affleck-Dine-Seiberg probe analysis — and then matched to the geometry. That two-sided check is what makes the paper convincing, not the supergravity alone. The boundary conditions are checked at both ends (83, 84, 91), and the small-curvature claim at large g_s M is honest about where it holds. The identification of chiral symmetry breaking with the conifold deformation is the conceptual payoff, and it is right. Credit where due: this is careful, and the appendix is unusually candid about what was not done. On the reader's weakest_assumption: I think it is slightly misidentified. The constant dilaton is not really an independent assumption — substituting the first-order system (81) into (78) makes it an identity, so the reader's worry there is softer than scored. The real gap is the one the stress-test names: the paper asserts that the trace of Einstein's equation (79) suffices, and never shows that (82) implies it or checks the traceless components. For a warped ansatz with ISD flux on a Ricci-flat transverse space this is a standard argument, but the paper does not invoke it, and the deformed conifold's curvature makes it non-obvious on its face. That is a rigor gap, not an error — the solution was subsequently verified — but it is the load-bearing step left implicit. Secondary: the ansatz (71) is assumed rather than derived, the Wilson-loop area-law argument is heuristic, and the pure-YM conjecture requires g_s M -> 0, which the authors themselves flag as outside supergravity control. The standard-model-at-the-base-of-a-cascade remark is speculative and detachable; ignore it. Who should read it: anyone working on confining holography, warped compactification, or Seiberg duality in a geometric setting. This deserves a serious referee and will be cited for decades.

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If the construction holds, this is a landmark result: the first explicit, non-singular, horizon-free supergravity dual of a confining four-dimensional N=1 gauge theory, obtained without an ad hoc cutoff or an embedded brane source. The closed-form solution is a genuine strength — the first-order system is integrable, the warp factor is a convergent integral, and the small-τ and large-τ limits (83), (84), (91) are checked and match the UV solution of hep-th/0002159. The duality cascade is a new and independently checkable mechanism, derived on the field-theory side from Seiberg duality and the exact beta functions (21)-(23) and matched to the flux cascade on the gravity side. The paper also makes quantitative predictions that can be tested against the field theory: the string tension scaling T_s ~ g_sM m_glueball^2 (99), the baryon mass M_b ~ mM (97), and the domain-wall tension T_wall ~ 1/(g_s m^3) (98). The identification of the conifold deformation with chiral symmetry breaking is a structural prediction that goes well beyond the singular solution it replaces.

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[§5.1, Eqs. (81)-(82) versus (75), (77), (78), (79)] The paper states that the first-order system (81)-(82) implies the second-order equations (75), (77), (78), (79), but the algebra is not displayed, and the sufficiency of the trace Einstein equation (79) is asserted rather than justified: 'it is sufficient to use the trace of the Einstein equation.' For a warped product with imaginary-self-dual 3-form flux on a Ricci-flat transverse space this reduction is standard, but the deformed conifold's curvature and the ℓ, K, f, k couplings make the identity non-obvious, and the paper does not invoke the standard argument. Because the non-singularity claim rests on the background solving the full ten-dimensional IIB equations, the authors should either display the reduction explicitly or state and justify the sufficiency of the trace equation, and check the traceless components of the Einstein equations.
[§5, Eq. (70), and §5.1] The constant dilaton is introduced as an assumption: 'It is not a priori clear whether the dilaton is constant for the deformed solution, but in what follows we will assume that such a background does exist, i.e. that g_s^2 F_3^2 = H_3^2.' Eq. (78) is that assumption written out, and §5.1 later asserts it follows from (81). The authors should show explicitly that substituting (81) into (78) yields an identity, converting the assumption into a derived consequence; as written the reader cannot tell whether the constant-dilaton ansatz is consistent or merely imposed. Relatedly, the first-order system is motivated by BPS saturation, but the paper never states how much supersymmetry the background preserves or verifies the Killing spinor equations. Since the dual is N=1, the background should preserve four supercharges, and this should be stated and checked.
[§5.2, Eqs. (93)-(99)] The headline claim of 'small curvature everywhere' rests on the estimate a_0 ~ α ~ (g_sM)^2 (93) together with the asymptotic forms (91), not on an evaluation of curvature invariants. Similarly, the 'pure supergravity proof' of confinement is qualitative: the argument is that the minimal surface for a large Wilson loop drifts to τ=0, where the coefficient of dx^2 is finite. Given that non-singularity with small curvature is the paper's central claim, a short explicit check — for instance the Ricci scalar and Kretschmann invariant at τ=0 and at large τ, and the behavior of the Wilson-loop minimal surface — would substantially strengthen it. The estimates (96), (97), (98), (99) should be labeled as order-of-magnitude throughout.

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[Eq. (37)] As printed, h(r) = 4πg_s r^4[K(r) + a g_s M^2/4]. Consistency with (38), h = L^4/r^4 ln(r/r_s) with L^2 ~ g_sM, requires r^{-4} rather than r^4 in the prefactor. Please check this and the analogous last term of (32).
[Eq. (82)] As printed, h' = −α f(1−F) + kF K^2 sinh^2τ. The intended grouping is presumably h' = −α[f(1−F)+kF]K^2 sinh^2τ = −α ℓ K^2 sinh^2τ using (88); please add the brackets so the equation is unambiguous.
[Eq. (63)] There is an unbalanced parenthesis in 'g5∧g3∧g4(1−F))' and the placement of the (1−F) factor is unclear; please check the sign conventions against (60)-(62).
[Eq. (80)] The factor '−α4[...]' on the right-hand side should presumably be −α/4 or similar; please check the normalization against (79) and (82).
[Eq. (90)] The integrand '(x coth x − 1)/sinh^2 x (sinh 2x − 2x)^{1/3}' is ambiguous as typeset; please bracket the grouping explicitly.
[§4 and Appendix] The authors acknowledge that the field-theory analysis is partial ('we have not attempted' the complete analysis; 'This analysis is too weak to rule out...'), and the final paragraph of the appendix raises the possibility of infinitely many sets of branches. It would help to state explicitly which of the paper's conclusions are independent of the branch structure and which rely on the uniqueness of the M-branch moduli space.
[Table 1] The U(1)_A and U(1)_R entries for Λ^{3N_+−2N} and λ are hard to parse as printed; please check them against the charges quoted in the text and in Table 2.

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The paper argues that the naked singularity of the earlier fractional-brane supergravity solution is removed by deforming the conifold, and that the same geometry is dual to a confining gauge theory which repeatedly Seiberg-dualizes as it f

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The paper takes up a known but sick gravitational description of a strongly interacting gauge theory: type IIB supergravity on a cone (the conifold) carrying $M$ units of three-form flux, dual to an $SU(N+M) times SU(N)$ supersymmetric gauge theory. In the earlier solution the five-form flux falls off toward small radius, eventually goes negative, and the metric develops a naked singularity. The authors argue this is not a breakdown but a signal: the dual gauge theory undergoes a repeated Seiberg duality transformation in which $N to N - M$, a 'duality cascade', so the rank of the gauge group drops step by step as one flows to the infrared. When the smaller group is finally exhausted the theory confines and breaks its discrete chiral symmetry, and the gravitational counterpart of that breaking is a deformation of the conifold, in which the shrinking three-cycle is blown up to finite size. With the deformation in place the authors write an explicit ten-dimensional metric that is smooth, horizon-free, and has small curvature everywhere provided the 't Hooft coupling $g_s M$ is large, so that ordinary supergravity can be trusted at every scale.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the metric of the deformed conifold, $sum_i z_i^2 = ε^2$, written in the basis of left-invariant one-forms with the function $K(τ) = (sinh 2τ - 2τ)^{1/3}/(2^{1/3} sinh τ)$, combined with a warped-product ansatz $ds^2 = h^{-1/2}(τ) dx^2 + h^{1/2}(τ) ds_6^2$. The three-form fluxes are given a $τ$-dependent profile through functions $F$, $f$, $k$, and the authors find a first-order (BPS) system, $f' = (1-F) tanh^2(τ/2)$, $k' = F coth^2(τ/2)$, $F' = (k-f)/2$, from which the second-order equations and the self-duality condition on the complex three-form follow. The warp factor is then a single integral, $h(τ) = (α 2^{2/3}/4) ∫_τ^∞ dx, x coth x - 1 over sinh^2 x (sinh 2x - 2x)^{1/3}$, which converges at $τ = 0$ — precisely the convergence that removes the singularity. On the field-theory side the machinery is the Seiberg duality matching of the two theories, with the invariants related by $I_2 propto I_1$ and $J_2 propto 1/J_1$, showing the flow is self-similar under $N to N - M$.

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Core claim

The central claim is that replacing the conifold by its deformed version inside the warped D-brane ansatz produces a non-singular IIB background dual to the cascading gauge theory on all scales. In the ultraviolet the solution reduces to the earlier logarithmic-running conifold background; in the infrared the finite three-cycle supports the $M$ units of $F_3$ flux, the two-cycle collapses instead, and the result is a confining geometry whose warp factor tends to a constant at the tip rather than vanishing or diverging. The authors show this explicitly: the three-form equations collapse to a closed first-order system with the solution $F(τ) = (sinh τ - τ)/(2 sinh τ)$, and the warp factor is a convergent integral whose value at the tip is of order $(g_s M)^2$, so the radius of the three-sphere there is set by the 't Hooft coupling. The same deformation breaks the classical $U(1)$ R-symmetry down to $Z_2$, matching the spontaneous breaking $Z_{2M} to Z_2$ that the field theory is argued to undergo.

Load-bearing premise

The paper assumes, without deriving it, that the dilaton stays constant in the deformed background — that the three-form fluxes satisfy $g_s^2 F_3^2 = H_3^2$ — and that the ten-dimensional metric keeps the warped-product form with the deformed conifold as its transverse space; the closed-form solution and the first-order system follow from these choices rather than forcing them.

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If this is right

In the ultraviolet the five-form flux grows without bound as the scale is raised, so the cascade continues indefinitely upward and the dual description has larger and larger gauge groups at higher energies.
In the infrared the coefficient of $dx^2$ in the metric approaches a constant at the tip, so a Wilson loop satisfies an area law with string tension $T_s ∼ m^2 g_s M$ — a purely supergravity argument for confinement.
Wrapped branes on the finite three-cycle acquire definite roles: a D3-brane wrapped on $S^3$ is a baryon vertex of mass $∼ m M$, and a D5-brane wrapped on $S^3$ is a domain wall of tension $∼ 1/(g_s m^3)$.
Adding $p$ D3-branes with $p$ of order $M$ turns on five-form flux at the tip, produces a singular horizon, and destroys the area law, matching the screening of external charges by dynamical quarks.
Pure $N=1$ $SU(M)$ Yang-Mills is conjectured to be dual to the $g_s M to 0$ limit of the same warped deformed conifold, where the three-sphere at the tip shrinks and the curvature grows.
The deformation does not disturb the logarithmic running of the gauge couplings in the ultraviolet, so the ultraviolet matching to the earlier conifold solution is preserved.

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The size of the blown-up cycle plays the role of the dynamical mass scale, so the paper effectively trades a dimensionless free parameter for dimensional transmutation; a first-principles determination of that scale from the $M$-branch structure would be a sharp check.
Because the cascade runs forever toward the ultraviolet, a complete model needs a cutoff such as compactification; the closing remark that the Standard Model might sit at the base of such a cascade is a concrete, if speculative, phenomenological hook that could be made quantitative by fixing the number of cascade steps between the weak and Planck scales.
The predicted hierarchy $T_s ∼ g_s M , m_{glueball}^2$ in the supergravity regime is a distinctive signature: any holographic glueball computation in this background should exhibit that same $g_s M$ scaling, and the scaling should disappear as $g_s M to 0$.
The constant-dilaton assumption can be probed directly by solving the full second-order system for the general metric ansatz off the first-order locus; if a running dilaton is forced, the closed-form solution is a limiting case rather than an exact background.

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We revisit the singular IIB supergravity solution describing M fractional 3-branes on the conifold [hep-th/0002159]. Its 5-form flux decreases, which we explain by showing that the relevant \NN=1 SUSY SU(N+M)xSU(N) gauge theory undergoes repeated Seiberg-duality transformations in which N -> N-M. Far in the IR the gauge theory confines; its chiral symmetry breaking removes the singularity of hep-th/0002159 by deforming the conifold. We propose a non-singular pure-supergravity background dual to the field theory on all scales, with small curvature everywhere if the `t Hooft coupling g_s M is large. In the UV it approaches that of hep-th/0002159, incorporating the logarithmic flow of couplings. In the IR the deformation of the conifold gives a geometrical realization of chiral symmetry breaking and confinement. We suggest that pure \NN=1 Yang-Mills may be dual to strings propagating at small g_s M on a warped deformed conifold. We note also that the standard model itself may lie at the base of a duality cascade.

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We revisit the singular IIB supergravity solution describing M fractional 3-branes on the conifold [hep-th/0002159]. Its 5-form flux decreases, which we explain by showing that the relevant \NN=1 SUSY SU(N+M)xSU(N) gauge theory undergoes repeated Seiberg-duality transformations in which N -> N-M. Far in the IR the gauge theory confines; its chiral symmetry breaking removes the singularity of hep-th/0002159 by deforming the conifold. We propose a non-singular pure-supergravity background dual to the field theory on all scales, with small curvature everywhere if the `t Hooft coupling g_s M is large. In the UV it approaches that of hep-th/0002159, incorporating the logarithmic flow of couplings. In the IR the deformation of the conifold gives a geometrical realization of chiral symmetry breaking and confinement. We suggest that pure \NN=1 Yang-Mills may be dual to strings propagating at small g_s M on a warped deformed conifold. We note also that the standard model itself may lie at the base of a duality cascade.

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Constructed new solutions generalizing this paper's and the baryonic branch solutions by adding sources into the type IIB configuration.

A tale of two cascades: Higgsing and Seiberg-duality cascades from type IIB string theory (2011) · 1.00 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting
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Using standard KS(Klebanov-Strassler)-like RG-flow equations [ref] , [ref] , one sees that (similar to [ref] ): [equation] and consequently, setting $C_2=0$, ([ref]) yields: [equation] Two plots for two sets of choices of $(c_1, c_2, C_2, κ_α_β, κ_β, N)$ are given in Figures 2 and 3, for QCD-inspired values of $(g_s, M, N_f)$ of Table 1.

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Said that its own supergravity solution, for a generic value of b0, is reminiscent of this paper's Klebanov-Strassler solution, though its gauge theories are three-dimensional with a better behaved UV.

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Said that its whole picture is very similar to this paper's Klebanov-Strassler model of superstring cosmology, in which the 4-dimensional universe dances at the tip of a pin.

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UV completion problem of the Klebanov-Strassler model [ref] has been cured in this model. * Brane/Gauge Picture: Branes configuration of [ref] involve $N$ color $D3$ branes, $M D5$ and $M D5$-branes, $N_f$ flavor $D7$ and $D_7$-branes.

Aspects of Thermal QCD Phenomenology at Intermediate Gauge/'t Hooft Coupling from String/M-Theory, (HD) Gravity Islands, and Multiverse · Type IIB String Dual of Large-$N$ Thermal QCD · contest 0.74
The first idea for an uplift, due to Kachru, Pearson, and Verlinde (KPV) [ref] , proposes that $p$ anti-D3-branes at the bottom of a Klebanov-Strassler warped throat region can break supersymmetry, with[The denominator was given as $(T+T)^3$ in [ref] and corrected to $(T+T)^2$, which properly accounts for the warping, in [ref] : see the treatment in [ref] .] [equation] where [equation] Here $T_D3$ is the D3-brane tension, $y_IR$ is the location of the tip of the warped throat inside $X_6$, and $e^A(y)$ is the warp factor from [ref], evaluated in the Klebanov-Strassler solution [ref] .

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The aim of this note is to study the modified instanton sum and the 4-group structure, as introduced in [ref] , for holographic 4d $𝒩=1$ $SU(M)$ gauge theories [ref] .

Modified instanton sum and 4-group structure in 4d $\mathcal{N}=1$ $SU(M)$ SYM from holography · Introduction and summary · 0.81
Indeed we will show that the effective brane charges, the R-anomalies and the beta functions of the gauge couplings that we can read from the supergravity solutions precisely match the picture of a cascade of Seiberg dualities that we expect to describe the RG flow of the field theories, generalizing the results of [ref] to gauge theories which include dynamical flavors.

Backreacting Flavors in the Klebanov-Strassler Background · The cascade: supergravity side · 1.00
In section 3, building up on the previous work [ref] , we identify the second order phase transitions (and the static universality classes) in holographic models of gauge-gravity correspondence: the $=2^*$ gauge theory plasma [ref] , the finite temperature Klebanov-Tseytlin (cascading) gauge theory plasma [ref] , and the phase transition in "exotic black holes” we proposed earlier [ref] .

Transport at criticality · Introduction · 0.84

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Using a solution generating technique presented in [ref] and further developed in [ref] - [ref] (sometimes referred to as `rotation') we construct a solution that generalizes that of KS [ref] and the so-called baryonic branch of [ref] by the addition of source D5/D3-branes in the bulk that translate into a new numerology for the field-theory quiver.

A tale of two cascades: Higgsing and Seiberg-duality cascades from type IIB string theory · General idea of this paper · 0.82
Using standard KS(Klebanov-Strassler)-like RG-flow equations [ref] , [ref] , one sees that (similar to [ref] ): [equation] and consequently, setting $C_2=0$, ([ref]) yields: [equation] Two plots for two sets of choices of $(c_1, c_2, C_2, κ_α_β, κ_β, N)$ are given in Figures 2 and 3, for QCD-inspired values of $(g_s, M, N_f)$ of Table 1.

Bulk Viscosity, Speed of Sound and Contact Structure at Intermediate Coupling · Summary of Results · 0.81
Another one uses the explicit metric on the deformed conifold [ref] .

Non-Abelian Vortex in Four Dimensions as a Critical Superstring · Deformations of the conifold metric. · 0.86

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In the cases of the KS-Baryonic Branch non-abelian T dual backgrounds the expressions read, (KS ): T_eff = T_D2 . ^2/3 h(τ)^- (4 h_2^2 + cosh^2 τK(τ)^2 ^8/3 )^/2√(3) K(τ) |_τ=0 , (KS+bb) T_eff = T_D2 . e^2g+k+2Φ (+ e^2Φ ^̨2 cos^2 )^2√(2) ^ |_ρ=0 Using the small radius expansions in [ref] and [ref] , we find that the domain walls have constant tension in the three analysed cases.

Non-Abelian T-duality and the AdS/CFT correspondence:new N=1 backgrounds · Domain walls · 0.88
Thus the result is [ref] : h(τ) = (g_sMα')^22^2/3ϵ^-8/3 I(τ) , where I(τ) = ∫_τ^∞dx xx-1/sinh^2x(sinh2x-2x)^1/3 .

D-branes in Supersymmetric Backgrounds · Deformation of the conifold: the Klebanov-Strassler (KS) model · 0.87
To leading order in $M/N$, $γ=-1/2$ [ref] , so that [equation] while the sum of the gauge couplings is constant along the RG flow [equation]

The quest for a conifold conformal order · Exotic phases of the cascading gauge theory at high temperature · 0.88

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Notice, again, that for $N_f=0$ the system ([ref]) reduces to the one found in [ref] .

Backreacting Flavors in the Klebanov-Strassler Background · Flavored warped deformed conifold · 0.88
The crucial difference between the IR boundary conditions for a chirally symmetric phase discussed in section [ref] and the IR boundary conditions for a$$phase discussed here is that in the former case the manifold$_5$geodesically completes with (a smooth) shrinking to zero size of$dS_4⊂_5$, while in the latter case, much like in supersymmetric Klebanov-Strassler state of cascading gauge theory [ref] , the 10-dimensional uplift of$_5$, [equation] geodesically completes with (a smooth) shrinking of a 2-cycle in the compact manifold$X_5$ [ref] .

Cascading gauge theory on dS_4 and String Theory Landscape · IR asymptotics · 0.80
Actually this model [ref] turns into the Klebanov-Tseytlin one [ref] at large $τ$, once we perform the radial change of variable ([ref]).

D-branes in Supersymmetric Backgrounds · Deformation of the conifold: the Klebanov-Strassler (KS) model · 0.83

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In order that the unperturbed deformed conifold metric $g̃_mn$ shrinks smoothly at the tip, we furthermore expect that the energy density of $F_3$ along the A cycle contracted with $g̃_mn$ does not vanish at the tip: [equation] where the superscript denotes the component of $F_3$ along the A cycle.[This is not to be confused with the notation of [ref] , where the superscript in $F_3^A$ is an index running over all components of $F_3$.] This is motivated by the fact that the energy density of $F_3^A$ is non-vanishing and prevents the A cycle from collapsing at the tip of the deformed conifold before the perturbation by the $D3$-branes [ref] .

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In order that the unperturbed deformed conifold metric $g̃_mn$ shrinks smoothly at the tip, we furthermore expect that the energy density of $F_3$ along the A cycle contracted with $g̃_mn$ does not vanish at the tip, [equation] where the superscript denotes the component of $F_3$ along the A cycle.[This is not to be confused with the notation of [ref] , where the superscript in $F_3^A$ is an index running over all components of $F_3$.] This is motivated by the fact that the non-vanishing energy density of $F_3^A$ prevents the A cycle from collapsing at the tip of the deformed conifold before the perturbation by the -branes [ref] .

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I think it is a defensible claim [ref] that if we didn't know the IR physics of QCD ( if we didn't happen to be made out of color-neutral boundstates of quarks and gluons) before the discovery of AdS/CFT, we would have predicted color confinement by finding its dual geometry [ref] .

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In the following we review the Klebanov-Strassler (KS) throat [ref] .

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This can be accomplished by embedding into the Calabi-Yau an incarnation of the Randall-Sundrum model [ref] , in which branes at one end of an (approximate) AdS$_5$ throat are exponentially redshifted relative to those at the other end.[This AdS$_5$ throat is not to be confused with the supersymmetric AdS$_4$ vacuum.] The string theory geometry that reproduces the Randall-Sundrum model in this context is called a Klebanov-Strassler throat [ref] , and arises in Calabi-Yau compactifications that contain a type of singular point called a conifold singularity, threaded by three-form fluxes [ref] .

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We shall begin the discussion with a brief review of the Klebanov-Strassler background [ref] .

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