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String Theory and the Size of Hadrons
Joseph Polchinski, Leonard Susskind
We begin by outlining the ancient puzzle of off shell currents and infinite size particles in a string theory of hadrons. We then consider the problem from the modern AdS/CFT persp…
Hard Scattering and Gauge/String Duality
Joseph Polchinski, Matthew J. Strassler
We consider high-energy fixed-angle scattering of glueballs in confining gauge theories that have supergravity duals. Although the effective description is in terms of the scatteri…
Don't Panic! Closed String Tachyons in ALE Spacetimes
A. Adams, J. Polchinski, E. Silverstein
We consider closed string tachyons localized at the fixed points of noncompact nonsupersymmetric orbifolds. We argue that tachyon condensation drives these orbifolds to flat space…
Gauge/Gravity Duals with Holomorphic Dilaton
Mariana Graña, Joseph Polchinski
We consider configurations of D7-branes and whole and fractional D3-branes with N=2 supersymmetry. On the supergravity side these have a warp factor, three-form flux and a nonconst…
Hierarchies from Fluxes in String Compactifications
Steven B. Giddings, Shamit Kachru, Joseph Polchinski
Warped compactifications with significant warping provide one of the few known mechanisms for naturally generating large hierarchies of physical scales. We demonstrate that this me…