• DOI:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/10/091
Corpus ID: 16987793

N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theories, M2-branes and their gravity duals

@article{Aharony2008N6SC,
  title={N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theories, M2-branes and their gravity duals},
  author={O. Aharony and O. Bergman and D. Jafferis and J. Maldacena},
  journal={Journal of High Energy Physics},
  year={2008},
  volume={2008},
  pages={091-091}
}

O. Aharony, O. Bergman, +1 author J. Maldacena

Published 2008

Physics

Journal of High Energy Physics

We construct three dimensional Chern-Simons-matter theories with gauge groups U(N) × U(N) and SU(N) × SU(N) which have explicit = 6 superconformal symmetry. Using brane constructions we argue that the U(N) × U(N) theory at level k describes the low energy limit of N M2-branes probing a C4/Zk singularity. At large N the theory is then dual to M-theory on AdS4 × S7/Zk. The theory also has a 't Hooft limit (of large N with a fixed ratio N/k) which is dual to type IIA string theory on AdS4 × CP3… CONTINUE READING

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