N=1 super Yang-Mills theories and wrapped branes

Abstract

I consider supergravity solutions of D5 branes wrapped on supersymmetric 2-cycles and use them to discuss relevant features of four-dimensional N=1 super Yang-Mills theories with gauge group SU(N). In particular, using a gravitational dual of the gaugino condensate, it is shown that is possible to obtain the complete NSVZ $\beta$-function. It is also described how different aspects of the gauge theory are nicely encoded in this supergravity solution.

1+8 pages, Proceedings of the Leuven RTN-workshop September 2002; typos corrected

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