Probe D-branes in superconformal field theories

✍ Scribed by J.D. Edelstein

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 120 KB
• Volume: 55
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-8208
• DOI: 10.1002/prop.200610377

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

We overview the main configurations of D‐brane probes in the AdS^5^ × X^5^ background of type IIB string theory (X^5^ being a Sasaki–Einstein manifold), and examine their most salient features from the point of view of the dual quiver superconformal field theory.