Emergent geometry in N=6 Chern-Simons-matter theory
arXiv:0904.0449
Abstract
We investigate a strong coupling expansion of N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons theory obtained from the semiclassical analysis of low energy, effective degrees of freedom given by the eigenvalues of a certain matrix model. We show how the orbifolded sphere S^7/Z_k of the dual geometry emerges dynamically from the distribution of the eigenvalues. As a test of this approach we compute the energy of off-diagonal excitations, finding perfect agreement with the dispersion relation of giant magnons.
6 pages. Talk given at the "BIRS Workshop on Gauge Fields, Cosmology, and Mathematical String Theory", Banff (Canada), Feb. 1 - 6, 2009; v2: reference added
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