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Simple Stringy Dynamical SUSY Breaking
Ofer Aharony, Shamit Kachru, Eva Silverstein
We present simple string models which dynamically break supersymmetry without non-Abelian gauge dynamics. The Fayet model, the Polonyi model, and the O'Raifeartaigh model each aris…
The black hole in the throat - thermodynamics of strongly coupled cascading gauge theories
Ofer Aharony, Alex Buchel, Patrick Kerner
We numerically construct black hole solutions corresponding to the deconfined, chirally symmetric phase of strongly coupled cascading gauge theories at various temperatures. We com…
A phase transition in commuting Gaussian multi-matrix models
Ofer Aharony, Sean A. Hartnoll
We analyze in detail a second order phase transition that occurs in large N Gaussian multi-matrix models in which the matrices are constrained to be commuting. The phase transition…
Comments on worldsheet theories dual to free large N gauge theories
Ofer Aharony, Justin R. David, Rajesh Gopakumar +2
We continue to investigate properties of the worldsheet conformal field theories (CFTs) which are conjectured to be dual to free large N gauge theories, using the mapping of Feynma…
Supercritical stability, transitions and (pseudo)tachyons
Ofer Aharony, Eva Silverstein
Highly supercritical strings (c much greater than 15) with a time-like linear dilaton provide a large class of solutions to string theory, in which closed string tachyon condensati…
The non-AdS/non-CFT correspondence, or three different paths to QCD
Ofer Aharony
In these lecture notes from the 2002 Cargese summer school we review the progress that has been made towards finding a string theory for QCD (or for pure (super)Yang-Mills theory)…