4 papers
Branes wrapping Black Holes
Sumit R. Das, Stefano Giusto, Samir D. Mathur +3
We examine the dynamics of extended branes, carrying lower dimensional brane charges, wrapping black holes and black hole microstates in M and Type II string theory. We show that t…
Quantizing String Theory in AdS_5 X S^5: Beyond the pp-Wave
Curtis G. Callan, Hok Kong Lee, Tristan McLoughlin +3
In a certain kinematic limit, where the effects of spacetime curvature (and other background fields) greatly simplify, the light-cone gauge world-sheet action for a type IIB supers…
Monopole Operators and Mirror Symmetry in Three Dimensions
Vadim Borokhov, Anton Kapustin, Xinkai Wu
We study vortex-creating, or monopole, operators in 3d CFTs which are the infrared limit of N=2 and N=4 supersymmetric QEDs in three dimensions. Using large-Nf expansion, we constr…
Topological Disorder Operators in Three-Dimensional Conformal Field Theory
Vadim Borokhov, Anton Kapustin, Xinkai Wu
Many abelian gauge theories in three dimensions flow to interacting conformal field theories in the infrared. We define a new class of local operators in these conformal field theo…