Variations on the Warped Deformed Conifold
arXiv:hep-th/0409186 · doi:10.1016/j.crhy.2004.10.003
Abstract
The warped deformed conifold background of type IIB theory is dual to the cascading $SU(M(p+1))\times SU(Mp)$ gauge theory. We show that this background realizes the (super-)Goldstone mechanism where the U(1) baryon number symmetry is broken by expectation values of baryonic operators. The resulting massless pseudo-scalar and scalar glueballs are identified in the supergravity spectrum. A D-string is then dual to a global string in the gauge theory. Upon compactification, the Goldstone mechanism turns into the Higgs mechanism, and the global strings turn into ANO strings.
15 pages, LaTeX; talk delivered by I.R.K. at Strings '04