AdS_4/CFT_3 -- Squashed, Stretched and Warped (2008)
Klebanov, Igor, Klose, Thomas, Murugan, Arvind
We use group theoretic methods to calculate the spectrum of short multiplets around the extremum of N=8 gauged supergravity potential which possesses N=2 supersymmetry and SU(3) global symmetry. Upon...
Entanglement as a Probe of Confinement (2007)
Klebanov, Igor R., Kutasov, David, Murugan, Arvind
We investigate the entanglement entropy in gravity duals of confining large $N_c$ gauge theories using the proposal of arXiv:hep-th/0603001, arXiv:hep-th/0605073. Dividing one of the directions of...
Gauge/Gravity Duality and Warped Resolved Conifold (2007)
Klebanov, Igor R., Murugan, Arvind
We study supergravity backgrounds encoded through the gauge/string correspondence by the SU(N) \times SU(N) theory arising on N D3-branes on the conifold. As discussed in hep-th/9905104, the dynamics...
On D3-brane Potentials in Compactifications with Fluxes and Wrapped D-branes (2006)
Baumann, Daniel, Dymarsky, Anatoly, Klebanov, Igor R., Maldacena, Juan, McAllister, Liam, Murugan, Arvind
We study the potential governing D3-brane motion in a warped throat region of a string compactification with internal fluxes and wrapped D-branes. If the Kahler moduli of the compact space are...
Fatgraph expansion for noncritical superstrings (2004)
Kapustin, Anton, Murugan, Arvind
We study the fatgraph expansion for the Complex Matrix Quantum Mechanics (CMQM) with a Chern-Simons coupling. In the double-scaling limit this model is believed to describe Type 0A superstrings in...