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Published January 17, 2014 | Published + Submitted
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Highly effective actions

Abstract

It is conjectured that the world-volume action of a probe D3-brane in an AdS_5 × S^5 background of type IIB superstring theory, with one unit of flux, can be reinterpreted as the exact effective action (or highly effective action) for U(2) N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory on the Coulomb branch. An analogous conjecture for U(2)_k × U(2)_(−k) ABJM theory is also presented. The main evidence supporting these conjectures is that the brane actions have all of the expected symmetries and dualities. Highly effective actions have general coordinate invariance, even though they describe nongravitational theories.

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© 2014 The Authors. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. Published for SISSA by Springer. Received: November 26, 2013. Accepted: December 30, 2013. Published: January 17, 2014. The author wishes to thank Savdeep Sethi for suggesting that he investigate effective actions for (2, 0) superconformal field theories on the Coulomb branch and for drawing [36, 37] to his attention. He also acknowledges discussions with Hee-Joong Chung, Sergei Gukov, Nicholas Hunter-Jones, Arthur Lipstein, and Wenbin Yan. This work was supported in part by the U.S. Dept. of Energy Grant No. DE-FG03-92-ER40701. The author acknowledges the hospitality of the Aspen Center for Physics, where he began working on this project. The ACP is supported by the National Science Foundation Grant No. PHY-1066293.

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