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The gravity duals of N=2 superconformal field theories
Davide Gaiotto, Juan Maldacena
We study the gauge/gravity duality for theories with four dimensional supersymmetries. We consider the large class of generalized quiver field theories constructed rec…
Minimal surfaces in AdS and the eight-gluon scattering amplitude at strong coupling
Luis F. Alday, Juan Maldacena
In this note we consider minimal surfaces in three dimensional anti-de Sitter space that end at the AdS boundary on a polygon given by a sequence of null segments. The problem can…
N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theories, M2-branes and their gravity duals
Ofer Aharony, Oren Bergman, Daniel Louis Jafferis +1
We construct three dimensional Chern-Simons-matter theories with gauge groups U(N)xU(N) and SU(N)xSU(N) which have explicit N=6 superconformal symmetry. Using brane constructions w…
Conformal collider physics: Energy and charge correlations
Diego M. Hofman, Juan Maldacena
We study observables in a conformal field theory which are very closely related to the ones used to describe hadronic events at colliders. We focus on the correlation functions of…
Comments on operators with large spin
Luis F. Alday, Juan Maldacena
We consider high spin operators. We give a general argument for the logarithmic scaling of their anomalous dimensions which is based on the symmetries of the problem. By an analyti…
Gluon scattering amplitudes at strong coupling
Luis F. Alday, Juan Maldacena
We describe how to compute planar gluon scattering amplitudes at strong coupling in N=4 super Yang Mills by using the gauge/string duality. The computation boils down to finding a…