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Dualities of Fields and Strings
Joseph Polchinski
Duality, the equivalence between seemingly distinct quantum systems, is a curious property that has been known for at least three quarters of a century. In the past two decades it…
Remarks on brane and antibrane dynamics
Ben Michel, Eric Mintun, Joseph Polchinski +2
We develop the point of view that brane actions should be understood in the context of effective field theory, and that this is the correct way to treat classical as well as loop d…
Higher Spin Holography, RG, and the Light Cone
Eric Mintun, Joseph Polchinski
We revisit the derivation of higher spin bulk theory using the renormalization group in the dual field theory. We argue that existing proposals have problems already at the level o…
Journey to the Center of the Fuzzball
Fang Chen, Ben Michel, Joseph Polchinski +1
We study two-charge fuzzball geometries, with attention to the use of the proper duality frame. For zero angular momentum there is an onion-like structure, and the smooth D1-D5 geo…
Models of AdS_2 Backreaction and Holography
Ahmed Almheiri, Joseph Polchinski
We develop models of 1+1 dimensional dilaton gravity describing flows to from higher dimensional and other spaces. We use these to study the effects of backreaction o…
The Field Theory of Intersecting D3-branes
Eric Mintun, Joseph Polchinski, Sichun Sun
We examine the defect gauge theory on two perpendicular D3-branes with a 1+1 dimensional intersection, consisting of fields on the D3-branes and charged hypermultiplets on t…