TY - JOUR
T1 - Properties of some conformal field theories with M-theory duals
AU - Gauntlett, Jerome P.
AU - Colgáin, Eoin Ó
AU - Varela, Oscar
PY - 2007/2/1
Y1 - 2007/2/1
N2 - By studying classes of supersymmetric solutions of D ≤ 11 supergravity with AdS5 factors, we determine some properties of the dual four-dimensional N ≤ 1 superconformal field theories. For some explicit solutions we calculate the central charges and also the conformal dimensions of certain chiral primary operators arising from wrapped membranes. For the most general class of solutions we show that there is a consistent Kaluza-Klein truncation to minimal D ≤ 5 gauged supergravity. This latter result allows us to study some aspects of the dual strongly coupled thermal plasma with a non-zero R-charge chemical potential and, in particular, we show that the ratio of the shear viscosity to the entropy density has the universal value of 1/4π.
AB - By studying classes of supersymmetric solutions of D ≤ 11 supergravity with AdS5 factors, we determine some properties of the dual four-dimensional N ≤ 1 superconformal field theories. For some explicit solutions we calculate the central charges and also the conformal dimensions of certain chiral primary operators arising from wrapped membranes. For the most general class of solutions we show that there is a consistent Kaluza-Klein truncation to minimal D ≤ 5 gauged supergravity. This latter result allows us to study some aspects of the dual strongly coupled thermal plasma with a non-zero R-charge chemical potential and, in particular, we show that the ratio of the shear viscosity to the entropy density has the universal value of 1/4π.
KW - AdS-CFT correspondence
KW - M-theory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33947708422&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/02/049
DO - 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/02/049
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33947708422
SN - 1029-8479
VL - 2007
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 2
M1 - 049
ER -