Thermodynamic Bubble Ansatz (2009)
Alday, Luis F., Gaiotto, Davide, Maldacena, Juan
Motivated by the computation of scattering amplitudes at strong coupling, we consider minimal area surfaces in AdS_5 which end on a null polygonal contour at the boundary. We map the classical...
Maldacena, Juan, Martelli, Dario
We study a gravity solution corresponding to fivebranes wrapped on the $S^2$ of the resolved conifold. By changing a parameter the solution continuously interpolates between the deformed conifold...
The gravity duals of N=2 superconformal field theories (2009)
Gaiotto, Davide, Maldacena, Juan
We study the gauge/gravity duality for theories with four dimensional ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetries. We consider the large class of generalized quiver field theories constructed recently by one of us...
Null polygonal Wilson loops and minimal surfaces in Anti-de-Sitter space (2009)
Alday, Luis F., Maldacena, Juan
We consider minimal surfaces in three dimensional anti-de-Sitter space that end at the AdS boundary on a polygon given by a sequence of null segments. The problem can be reduced to a certain...
Minimal surfaces in AdS and the eight-gluon scattering amplitude at strong coupling (2009)
Alday, Luis F., Maldacena, Juan
In this note we consider minimal surfaces in three dimensional anti-de Sitter space that end at the AdS boundary on a polygon given by a sequence of null segments. The problem can be reduced to a...
Fermionic T-Duality, Dual Superconformal Symmetry, and the Amplitude/Wilson Loop Connection (2008)
Berkovits, Nathan, Maldacena, Juan
We show that tree level superstring theories on certain supersymmetric backgrounds admit a symmetry which we call ``fermionic T-duality''. This is a non-local redefinition of the fermionic worldsheet...
Comments on string theory backgrounds with non-relativistic conformal symmetry (2008)
Maldacena, Juan, Martelli, Dario, Tachikawa, Yuji
We consider non-relativistic conformal quantum mechanical theories that arise by doing discrete light cone quantization of field theories. If the field theory has a gravity dual, then the conformal...
N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theories, M2-branes and their gravity duals (2008)
Aharony, Ofer, Bergman, Oren, Jafferis, Daniel Louis, Maldacena, Juan
We construct three dimensional Chern-Simons-matter theories with gauge groups U(N)xU(N) and SU(N)xSU(N) which have explicit N=6 superconformal symmetry. Using brane constructions we argue that the...
Conformal collider physics: Energy and charge correlations (2008)
Hofman, Diego M., Maldacena, Juan
We study observables in a conformal field theory which are very closely related to the ones used to describe hadronic events at colliders. We focus on the correlation functions of the energies...
Comments on gluon scattering amplitudes via AdS/CFT (2007)
Alday, Luis F., Maldacena, Juan
In this article we consider n gluon color ordered, planar amplitudes in N=4 super Yang Mills at strong 't Hooft coupling. These amplitudes are approximated by classical surfaces in AdS_5 space. We...
Hofman, Diego M., Maldacena, Juan
We study the worldsheet reflection matrix of a string attached to a D-brane in $AdS_5 \times S^5$. The D-brane corresponds to a maximal giant graviton and it wraps an $S^3$ inside $S^5$. In the gauge...
Comments on operators with large spin (2007)
Alday, Luis F., Maldacena, Juan
We consider high spin operators. We give a general argument for the logarithmic scaling of their anomalous dimensions which is based on the symmetries of the problem. By an analytic continuation we...
Gluon scattering amplitudes at strong coupling (2007)
Alday, Luis F., Maldacena, Juan
We describe how to compute planar gluon scattering amplitudes at strong coupling in N=4 super Yang Mills by using the gauge/string duality. The computation boils down to finding a certain classical...
On the Singularities of the Magnon S-matrix (2007)
Dorey, Nick, Hofman, Diego M., Maldacena, Juan
We investigate the analytic structure of the magnon S-matrix in the spin-chain description of planar ${\cal N}=4$ SUSY Yang-Mills/$AdS_{5}\times S^{5}$ strings. Semiclassical analysis suggests that...
Connecting giant magnons to the pp-wave: An interpolating limit of $AdS_5 \times S^5$ (2006)
We consider a particular large-radius limit of the worldsheet $S$-matrix for strings propagating on $AdS_5 \times S^5$. This limiting theory interpolates smoothly between the so-called plane-wave and...
Strings in Flat Space and PlaneWaves from N = 4 Super Yang Mills (2006)
Strings in Flat Space and PlaneWaves from N = 4 Super Yang Mills
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...
Hofman, Diego M., Maldacena, Juan
Studies of ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang Mills operators with large R-charge have shown that, in the planar limit, the problem of computing their dimensions can be viewed as a certain spin chain. These...
An Index for 4 dimensional Super Conformal Theories (2005)
Kinney, Justin, Maldacena, Juan, Minwalla, Shiraz, Raju, Suvrat
We present a trace formula for an index over the spectrum of four dimensional superconformal field theories on $S^3 \times $ time. Our index receives contributions from states invariant under at...
Fivebranes from gauge theory (2005)
We study theories with sixteen supercharges and a discrete energy spectrum. One class of theories has symmetry group $SU(2|4)$. They arise as truncations of ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang Mills. They...
Flux-vacua in Two Dimensional String Theory (2005)
Maldacena, Juan, Seiberg, Nathan
We analyze the two dimensional type 0 theory with background RR-fluxes. Both the 0A and the 0B theory have two distinct fluxes $q$ and $\tilde q$. We study these two theories at finite temperature...
Long strings in two dimensional string theory and non-singlets in the matrix model (2005)
We consider two dimensional string backgrounds. We discuss the physics of long strings that come from infinity. These are related to non-singlets in the dual matrix model description.
Deforming field theories with $U(1)\times U(1)$ global symmetry and their gravity duals (2005)
We find the gravity dual of a marginal deformation of ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang Mills, and discuss some of its properties. This deformation is intimately connected with an $SL(2,R)$ symmetry of the...
Black Hole Non-Formation in the Matrix Model (2004)
Karczmarek, Joanna L., Maldacena, Juan, Strominger, Andrew
The leading classical low-energy effective actions for two-dimensional string theories have solutions describing the gravitational collapse of shells of matter into a black hole. It is shown that...
Bubbling AdS space and 1/2 BPS geometries (2004)
Lin, Hai, Lunin, Oleg, Maldacena, Juan
We consider all 1/2 BPS excitations of $AdS \times S$ configurations in both type IIB string theory and M-theory. In the dual field theories these excitations are described by free fermions....
Exact vs. Semiclassical Target Space of the Minimal String (2004)
Maldacena, Juan, Moore, Gregory, Seiberg, Nathan, Shih, David
We study both the classical and the quantum target space of (p,q) minimal string theory, using the FZZT brane as a probe. By thinking of the target space as the moduli space of FZZT branes,...
We construct a few Euclidean supergravity solutions with multiple boundaries. We consider examples where the corresponding boundary field theory is well defined on each boundary. We point out that...
The black hole final state (2003)
Horowitz, Gary T., Maldacena, Juan
We propose that in quantum gravity one needs to impose a final state boundary condition at black hole singularities. This resolves the apparent contradiction between string theory and semiclassical...
Towards Inflation in String Theory (2003)
Kachru, Shamit, Kallosh, Renata, Linde, Andrei, Maldacena, Juan, McAllister, Liam, Trivedi, Sandip P.
We investigate the embedding of brane inflation into stable compactifications of string theory. At first sight a warped compactification geometry seems to produce a naturally flat inflaton potential,...
Karczmarek, Joanna L., Liu, Hong, Maldacena, Juan, Strominger, Andrew
The decay of an unstable D-brane via closed string emission and open string pair production is considered in subcritical string theory with a spacelike linear dilaton. The decay rate is given by the...
D-brane Decay in Two-Dimensional String Theory (2003)
Klebanov, Igor R., Maldacena, Juan, Seiberg, Nathan
We consider unstable D0-branes of two dimensional string theory, described by the boundary state of Zamolodchikov and Zamolodchikov [hep-th/0101152] multiplied by the Neumann boundary state for the...
Closed strings from decaying D-branes (2003)
Lambert, Neil, Liu, Hong, Maldacena, Juan
We compute the emission of closed string radiation from homogeneous rolling tachyons. For an unstable decaying D$p$-brane the radiated energy is infinite to leading order for $p\leq 2$ and finite for...
Gravity solutions for the D1-D5 system with angular momentum (2002)
Lunin, Oleg, Maldacena, Juan, Maoz, Liat
We construct a large family of supergravity solutions that describe BPS excitations on AdS_3 x S^3 with angular momentum on S^3. These solutions take into account the full backreaction on the metric....
Transverse Fivebranes in Matrix Theory (2002)
Maldacena, Juan, Sheikh-Jabbari, Mohammad M., Van Raamsdonk, Mark
M-theory on the maximally supersymmetric plane wave background of eleven-dimensional supergravity admits spherical BPS transverse M5-branes with zero light-cone energy. We give direct evidence that...
Non-Gaussian features of primordial fluctuations in single field inflationary models (2002)
We compute the three point correlation functions for primordial scalar and tensor fluctuations in single field inflationary models. We obtain explicit expressions in the slow roll limit where the...
N=2 Superconformal Description of Superstring in Ramond-Ramond Plane Wave Backgrounds (2002)
Berkovits, Nathan, Maldacena, Juan
Using the U(4) formalism developed ten years ago, the worldsheet action for the superstring in Ramond-Ramond plane wave backgrounds is expressed in a manifestly N=(2,2) superconformally invariant...
Strings on pp-waves and massive two dimensional field theories (2002)
We find a general class of pp-wave solutions of type IIB string theory such that the light cone gauge worldsheet lagrangian is that of an interacting massive field theory. When the light cone...
Strings in AdS3 and the SL(2,R) WZW model. III. Correlation functions (2002)
Maldacena, Juan, Ooguri, Hirosi
We consider correlation functions for string theory on AdS3. We analyze their singularities and we provide a physical interpretation for them. We explain which worldsheet correlation functions have a...
Strings in flat space and pp waves from ${\cal N}=4$ Super Yang Mills (2002)
Berenstein, David, Maldacena, Juan, Nastase, Horatiu
We explain how the string spectrum in flat space and pp-waves arises from the large $N$ limit, at fixed $g^2_{YM}$, of U(N) ${\cal N} =4$ super Yang Mills. We reproduce the spectrum by summing a...
Strings in AdS_3 and the SL(2,R) WZW Model. Part 3: Correlation Functions (2001)
Maldacena, Juan, Ooguri, Hirosi
We consider correlation functions for string theory on AdS_3. We analyze their singularities and we provide a physical interpretation for them. We explain which worldsheet correlation functions have...
D-brane Charges in Five-brane backgrounds (2001)
Maldacena, Juan, Moore, Gregory, Seiberg, Nathan
We discuss the discrete Z_k D-brane charges (twisted K-theory charges) in five-brane backgrounds from several different points of view. In particular, we interpret it as a result of a standard Higgs...
D-Brane Instantons and K-Theory Charges (2001)
Maldacena, Juan, Moore, Gregory, Seiberg, Nathan
We discuss some physical issues related to the K-theoretic classification of D-brane charges, putting an emphasis on the role of D-brane instantons. The relation to D-instantons provides a physical...
Strings in AdS3 and the SL(2,R) WZW model. I: The spectrum (2001)
Maldacena, Juan, Ooguri, Hirosi
In this paper we study the spectrum of bosonic string theory on AdS3. We study classical solutions of the SL(2,R) WZW model, including solutions for long strings with nonzero winding number. We show...
Strings in AdS3 and the SL(2,R) WZW model. II: Euclidean black hole (2001)
Maldacena, Juan, Ooguri, Hirosi, Son, John
We consider the one-loop partition function for Euclidean BTZ black hole back-grounds or equivalently thermal AdS3 backgrounds which are quotients of H3 (Euclidean AdS3). The one-loop partition...
The supergravity dual of a theory with dynamical supersymmetry breaking (2001)
Maldacena, Juan, Nastase, Horatiu
We study the large $N$ limit of a little string theory that reduces in the IR to U(N) ${\cal N} =1$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills with Chern Simons coupling $k$. Witten has shown that this field theory...
Geometrical interpretation of D-branes in gauged WZW models (2001)
Maldacena, Juan, Moore, Gregory, Seiberg, Nathan
We show that one can construct D-branes in parafermionic and WZW theories (and their orbifolds) which have very natural geometrical interpretations, and yet are not automatically included in the...
De-singularization by rotation (2000)
We consider certain BPS supergravity solutions of string theory which have singularities and we show that the singularity goes away when we add angular momentum. These smooth solutions enable us to...
Supergravity description of field theories on curved manifolds and a no go theorem (2000)
Maldacena, Juan, Nunez, Carlos
In the first part of this paper we find supergravity solutions corresponding to branes on worldvolumes of the form $R^d \times \Sigma$ where $\Sigma$ is a Riemann surface. These theories arise when...
1+1 Dimensional NCOS and its U(N) Gauge Theory Dual (2000)
Klebanov, Igor R., Maldacena, Juan
We study some aspects of open string theories on D-branes with critical electric fields. We show that the massless open string modes that move in the direction of the electric field decouple. In the...
Strings in AdS_3 and the SL(2,R) WZW Model. Part 2: Euclidean Black Hole (2000)
Maldacena, Juan, Ooguri, Hirosi, Son, John
We consider the one-loop partition function for Euclidean BTZ black hole backgrounds or equivalently thermal AdS_3 backgrounds which are quotients of H_3 (Euclidean AdS_3). The one-loop partition...
S-Duality and Noncommutative Gauge Theory (2000)
Gopakumar, Rajesh, Maldacena, Juan, Minwalla, Shiraz, Strominger, Andrew
It is conjectured that strongly coupled, spatially noncommutative $\CN=4$ Yang-Mills theory has a dual description as a weakly coupled open string theory in a near critical electric field, and that...
A Black Hole Farey Tail (2000)
Dijkgraaf, Robbert, Maldacena, Juan, Moore, Gregory, Verlinde, Erik
We derive an exact expression for the Fourier coefficients of elliptic genera of Calabi-Yau manifolds. When applied to k-fold symmetric products of K3 surfaces the expression is well-suited to...
DeSitter entropy, quantum entanglement and ADS/CFT (2000)
Hawking, Stephen, Maldacena, Juan, Strominger, Andrew
A deSitter brane-world bounding regions of anti-deSitter space has a macroscopic entropy given by one-quarter the area of the observer horizon. A proposed variant of the AdS/CFT correspondence gives...
Gravity, particle physics and their unification (2000)
We explain the need for a theory of quantum gravity and some general ideas about string theory, including the idea of the derivation of the Hawking Bekenstein entropy formula for extremal black...
Strings in AdS_3 and the SL(2,R) WZW Model. Part 1: The Spectrum (2000)
Maldacena, Juan, Ooguri, Hirosi
In this paper we study the spectrum of bosonic string theory on AdS_3. We study classical solutions of the SL(2,R) WZW model, including solutions for long strings with non-zero winding number. We...
Counting BPS Blackholes in Toroidal Type II String Theory (1999)
Maldacena, Juan, Moore, Gregory, Strominger, Andrew
We derive a $U$-duality invariant formula for the degeneracies of BPS multiplets in a D1-D5 system for toroidal compactification of the type II string. The elliptic genus for this system vanishes,...
Anti-de Sitter Fragmentation (1998)
Maldacena, Juan, Michelson, Jeremy, Strominger, Andrew
Low-energy, near-horizon scaling limits of black holes which lead to string theory on AdS_2 x S^2 are described. Unlike the higher-dimensional cases, in the simplest approach all finite-energy...
The Operator Product Expansion for Wilson Loops and Surfaces in the Large N Limit (1998)
Berenstein, David, Corrado, Richard, Fischler, Willy, Maldacena, Juan
The operator product expansion for ``small'' Wilson loops in {\cal N}=4, d=4 SYM is studied. The OPE coefficients are calculated in the large N and g_{YM}^2 N limit by exploiting the AdS/CFT...
The Large N Limit of ${\cal N} =2,1 $ Field Theories from Threebranes in F-theory (1998)
Aharony, Ofer, Fayyazuddin, Ansar, Maldacena, Juan
We consider field theories arising from a large number of D3-branes near singularities in F-theory. We study the theories at various conformal points, and compute, using their conjectured string...
AdS3 Black Holes and a Stringy Exclusion Principle (1998)
Maldacena, Juan, Strominger, Andrew
The duality relating near-horizon microstates of black holes obtained as orbifolds of a subset of AdS3 to the states of a conformal field theory is analyzed in detail. The SL(2,R) invariant vacuum on...
Black Hole Entropy in M-Theory (1997)
Maldacena, Juan, Strominger, Andrew, Witten, Edward
Extremal black holes in M-theory compactification on $M\times S^1$ are microscopically represented by fivebranes wrapping $P\times S^1$, where $M$ is a Calabi-Yau threefold and $P$ is a four-cycle in...
D-branes and Near Extremal Black Holes at Low Energies (1996)
It has been observed recently that many properties of some near extremal black holes can be described in terms of bound states of D-branes. Using a non-renormalization theorem we argue that the...
Black Hole Greybody Factors and D-Brane Spectroscopy (1996)
Maldacena, Juan, Strominger, Andrew
Black holes do not Hawking radiate strictly blackbody radiation due to well-known frequency-dependent greybody factors. These factors arise from frequency-dependent potential barriers outside the...
Nonextremal Black Hole Microstates and U-duality (1996)
Horowitz, Gary, Maldacena, Juan, Strominger, Andrew
A six-parameter family of five-dimensional black hole solutions is constructed which are labeled by their mass, two asymptotic scalar fields and three charges. It is shown that the Bekenstein-Hawking...
Statistical Entropy of Four-Dimensional Extremal Black Holes (1996)
Maldacena, Juan, Strominger, Andrew
String theory is used to count microstates of four-dimensional extremal black holes in compactifications with $N=4$ and $N=8$ supersymmetry. The result agrees for large charges with the...