String theory duals of Lifshitz–Chern–Simons gauge theories

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/29/19/194007zbMATH Open1254.83044arXiv1111.0634OpenAlexW3105618084MaRDI QIDQ4648233FDOQ4648233

Authors: K. Balasubramanian, John McGreevy 

Publication date: 8 November 2012

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose candidate gravity duals for a class of non-Abelian z=2 Lifshitz Chern-Simons (LCS) gauge theories studied by Mulligan, Kachru and Nayak. These are nonrelativistic gauge theories in 2+1 dimensions in which parity and time-reversal symmetries are explicitly broken by the presence of a Chern-Simons term. We show that these field theories can be realized as deformations of DLCQ N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. Using the holographic dictionary, we identify the bulk fields that are dual to these deformations. The geometries describing the groundstates of the non-Abelian LCS gauge theories realized here exhibit a mass gap.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.0634

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zbMATH Keywords

string theorygroundstatesmass gapnonrelativistic gauge theoriessuper Yang-Mills theoryLifshitz-Chern-Simons gauge theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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