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Gauge/Gravity Duality and Warped Resolved Conifold
High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 9 Jan 2007 · 40 references
Pith's verdict: A solid, checkable construction of the localized warped resolved conifold; the soft spots are acknowledged and none of them is load-bearing.
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Placing a stack of D3-branes at a single point on the blown-up two-sphere of the resolved conifold is claimed to remove the infrared singularity of the earlier smeared solution and open a smooth $AdS_5$ throat, giving a gravity dual of a re
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What carries the argument
The load-bearing tool is the scalar Green's function on the resolved conifold, written as a sum over harmonics $Y_I$ of $T^{1,1}$ with radial coefficients $H_I(r)$, where the angular eigenfunctions are built from the conifold's $a_i$, $b_j$ coordinates so that each harmonic maps directly onto a gauge-invariant operator made from $A_i$, $B_j$. The resolved-conifold Laplacian factors into three pieces (two $S^3$ Laplacians and the $psi$-shift Laplacian) weighted by $r^2$, $r^2+6u^2$ and $kappa(r)/r^2$, so the same harmonics that diagonalize the singular conifold also diagonalize the resolved one. For the localized stack the radial equation is solved in closed form with hypergeometric functions ${}_2F_1(beta, 1+beta; 1+2beta; -9u^2/r^2)$ with $beta = sqrt(1 + (3/2)l(l+1))$, normalized so that the $l=0$ member reproduces the known smeared warp factor $2/(9u^2 r^2) - (2/(81u^4)) log(1 + 9u^2/r^2)$. The delta-function identity for the Legendre sum, and the local flat-space limit of the Green's function, are what convert the series into a smooth geometry.
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Core claim
The central claim is that a stack of D3-branes localized at one point on the finite two-sphere of the resolved conifold produces a completely non-singular warped background with unbroken $SU(2)$ times $U(1)$ times $U(1)$ symmetry. The warp factor is the Green's function of the scalar Laplacian on the resolved conifold, expanded in $T^{1,1}$ harmonics; because the branes sit at $r=0$ on the blown-up sphere, only the $l_1 = 0$, $R = 0$ harmonics contribute, leaving a sum over $l_2 = l$ with Legendre polynomials. Each term individually falls off as $1/r^2$ at small $r$, which is what made the smeared solution of Pando Zayas and Tseytlin singular, but the authors show that the leading $1/r^2$ and the logarithmic terms assemble into $4L^4/(9u^2 r^2)$ times a delta function on the sphere, so the divergence survives only at the north pole where the source sits. Near the source the warp factor is argued to behave as $L^4/y^4$ in the local flat distance $y$, which is precisely the near-horizon form that yields an $AdS_5$ times $S^5$ throat. On the gauge side this corresponds to giving a vacuum expectation value to a single bifundamental, $B_2 = u$ times the identity, with $A_1=A_2=B_1=0$; the superpotential then reduces to $W = $ Tr$(A_1[B_1,A_2])$, the $N=4$ form, so the flow ends at $N=4$ $SU(N)$ Yang-Mills. The authors also compute the baryonic condensate by wrapping a Euclidean D3-brane on the four-cycle spanned by $r$, $theta_1$, $phi_1$, $psi$ at fixed point on the two-sphere; the Born-Infeld action yields a factor $sin^N(theta_2/2)$, the ground-state wavefunction of a charge-$N$ monopole on the sphere, identifying $det B_2$ as the operator with the expectation value and giving it dimension $3N/4$ rather than its classical value $N$.
Load-bearing premise
The smoothness claim rests on the assertion, argued in Appendix B, that the infinite sum of radial functions over spherical harmonics reproduces the flat-space $1/y^4$ behavior near the source even though each term alone scales as $1/r^2$; that argument regulates the sum by hand and says the result essentially follows from dimensional analysis, without a controlled expansion.
Editorial extensions
If this is right
- The resolved-conifold branch of the conifold gauge theory has a smooth ten-dimensional dual, so the infrared singularity of the smeared solution is an artifact of smearing rather than a feature of the physics.
- The background realizes a holographic renormalization-group flow from the $N=1$ $SU(N)$ times $SU(N)$ fixed point in the ultraviolet to $N=4$ $SU(N)$ Yang-Mills in the infrared, driven by a single bifundamental expectation value.
- An infinite series of single-trace operators with the same $SU(2)$ times $U(1)$ times $U(1)$ quantum numbers acquires expectation values, with dimensions read off from the large-$r$ falloff of the fluctuations, including irrational dimensions for non-chiral operators.
- The Euclidean D3-brane wrapping the four-cycle reproduces the monopole wavefunction $sin^N(theta_2/2)$, confirming that $det B_2$ is the baryonic operator that condenses and that its dimension is $3N/4$, shifted from the classical $N$ by an anomalous dimension.
- Because the finite two-cycle survives the creation of the new five-cycle, a fluxless NS-NS $B_2$ field can still be turned on, giving a description of the dual gauge theory at generic gauge couplings rather than only at the isolated point where one coupling diverges.
Reading between the lines
- The same Green's-function strategy should transfer directly to cones over the $Y^{p,q}$ Sasaki-Einstein spaces, where the quiver has the same bifundamental structure; the obstruction is finding the analogue of the $a_i$, $b_j$ variables that makes the harmonics match operators.
- The heuristic resummation in the appendix is the kind of statement that could be settled numerically: truncating the Legendre sum at large $l$ and evaluating near the source would show whether the $1/y^4$ behavior emerges or whether residual oscillation survives.
- The Euclidean-brane calculation gives a scaling $u^{3N/4}$ for the condensate rather than the classical $u^N$; comparing that anomalous exponent against a direct field-theory computation at strong coupling would be a sharp check of the whole picture.
- The claim that the four-cycle calculation is a legitimate semiclassical saddle implicitly assumes the wrapped brane action needs no holographic renormalization beyond the radial cutoff; the authors flag this themselves as left for future work.
Original abstract
We study supergravity backgrounds encoded through the gauge/string correspondence by the SU(N) \times SU(N) theory arising on N D3-branes on the conifold. As discussed in hep-th/9905104, the dynamics of this theory describes warped versions of both the singular and the resolved conifolds through different (symmetry breaking) vacua. We construct these supergravity solutions explicitly and match them with the gauge theory with different sets of vacuum expectation values of the bi-fundamental fields A_1, A_2, B_1, B_2. For the resolved conifold, we find a non-singular SU(2)\times U(1)\times U(1) symmetric warped solution produced by a stack of D3-branes localized at a point on the blown-up 2-sphere. It describes a smooth RG flow from AdS_5 \times T^{1,1} in the UV to AdS_5 \times S^5 in the IR, produced by giving a VEV to just one field, e.g. B_2. The presence of a condensate of baryonic operator det B_2 is confirmed using a Euclidean D3-brane wrapping a 4-cycle inside the resolved conifold. The Green's functions on the singular and resolved conifolds are central to our calculations and are discussed in some detail.
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We study supergravity backgrounds encoded through the gauge/string correspondence by the SU(N) \times SU(N) theory arising on N D3-branes on the conifold. As discussed in hep-th/9905104, the dynamics of this theory describes warped versions of both the singular and the resolved conifolds through different (symmetry breaking) vacua. We construct these supergravity solutions explicitly and match them with the gauge theory with different sets of vacuum expectation values of the bi-fundamental fields A_1, A_2, B_1, B_2. For the resolved conifold, we find a non-singular SU(2)\times U(1)\times U(1) symmetric warped solution produced by a stack of D3-branes localized at a point on the blown-up 2-sphere. It describes a smooth RG flow from AdS_5 \times T^{1,1} in the UV to AdS_5 \times S^5 in the IR, produced by giving a VEV to just one field, e.g. B_2. The presence of a condensate of baryonic operator det B_2 is confirmed using a Euclidean D3-brane wrapping a 4-cycle inside the resolved conifold. The Green's functions on the singular and resolved conifolds are central to our calculations and are discussed in some detail.
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| s0 | We study supergravity backgrounds encoded through the gauge/string correspondence by the SU(N) \times SU(N) theory arising on N D3-branes on the conifold. | contribution 0.78 | 0.77 | 0.06 | asserted 0.98 |
| s1 | As discussed in hep-th/9905104, the dynamics of this theory describes warped versions of both the singular and the resolved conifolds through different (symmetry breaking) vacua. | background 1.00 | 0.06 | 0.09 | asserted 0.99 |
| s2 | We construct these supergravity solutions explicitly and match them with the gauge theory with different sets of vacuum expectation values of the bi-fundamental fields A_1, A_2, B_1, B_2. | contribution 0.72 | 0.95 | 0.12 | asserted 1.00 |
| s3 | For the resolved conifold, we find a non-singular SU(2)\times U(1)\times U(1) symmetric warped solution produced by a stack of D3-branes localized at a point on the blown-up 2-sphere. | result 0.97 | 0.94 | 0.21 | asserted 1.00 |
| s4 | It describes a smooth RG flow from AdS_5 \times T^{1,1} in the UV to AdS_5 \times S^5 in the IR, produced by giving a VEV to just one field, e.g. B_2. | result 0.93 | 0.80 | 0.22 | asserted 1.00 |
| s5 | The presence of a condensate of baryonic operator det B_2 is confirmed using a Euclidean D3-brane wrapping a 4-cycle inside the resolved conifold. | result 0.94 | 0.88 | 0.13 | asserted 1.00 |
| s6 | The Green's functions on the singular and resolved conifolds are central to our calculations and are discussed in some detail. | method 0.72 | 0.64 | 0.04 | asserted 0.97 |
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In order to do this we follow the analogous calculation in the Type IIB context, discussed in [ref] .
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where the corresponding $(m_1, m_2)$ values are $(1,1), (0,1)$ and $(-1,-1)$ respectively [ref] .
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We can compare this result with the one obtained in equation (6) of [ref] , and conclude that the rest of the calculation for $e^-S_D0$ will go exactly as in [ref] .
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In this case only $^A_N$ is non-vanishing and, by using ([ref]), $|^A_N|≃v^3N/8$, reproducing the result of [ref] .
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Indeed, for the homogeneous case of $(Y,g_Y)=T^1,1$ one may construct [ref] explicit solutions to ([ref]) on the conifold.
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The IR fixed point corresponds to $N=4$ SYM theory [ref] .
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We now consider the warped resolved conifold (WRC) [ref] where we study the dynamics of moving probe D-branes.
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We will therefore keep our discussion brief and refer the reader to [ref] for further details.
The AdS/CFT Correspondence and Symmetry Breaking · Baryonic condensates and M5 branes in the $Q^111$ solution · 0.82
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