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Branes in the bulk of Anti-de Sitter space
Michael R. Douglas, Washington Taylor
We consider (3 + 1)-dimensional N=4 super Yang-Mills theory with a nonvanishing scalar Higgs vacuum expectation value, and compare this theory to AdS supergravity with branes in th…
AdS Dynamics from Conformal Field Theory
Tom Banks, Michael R. Douglas, Gary T. Horowitz +1
We explore the extent to which a local string theory dynamics in anti-de Sitter space can be determined from its proposed Conformal Field Theory (CFT) description. Free fields in t…
D-branes and Discrete Torsion
Michael R. Douglas
We show that discrete torsion is implemented in a D-brane world-volume theory by using a projective representation of the orbifold point group. We study the example of C^3/Z_2 x Z_…
Chiral Liquids in 1-d: A New Class of NFL-Fixed Points
Natan Andrei, Michael R. Douglas, Andres Jerez
We identify a non Fermi Liquid (NFL) class of fixed points describing the infrared behaviour of interacting chiral fermions in one dimension. The thermodynamic properties and asymp…