Speaker
Ronnie Rodgers
(Nordita)
Description
I will discuss various examples of D-brane embeddings in supergravity backgrounds, specified by a holomorphic function of a complex coordinate on the D-brane’s worldvolume. These embeddings have energy that saturates a BPS bound and they preserve a fraction of supersymmetry. I will pay particular attention to embeddings in AdS5 x S5, where through holography they provide analytically tractable examples of strongly coupled quantum field theories without translational invariance.
Author
Ronnie Rodgers
(Nordita)
