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Phys. Rev. D 65, 105007 (2002) [8 pages]

Gravity dual of the chiral anomaly

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Igor R. Klebanov and Peter Ouyang
Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544

Edward Witten
School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, New Jersey 08540

Received 3 March 2002; published 24 April 2002

We study effects associated with the chiral anomaly for a cascading SU(N+M)×SU(N) gauge theory using gauge/gravity duality. In the gravity dual the anomaly is a classical feature of the supergravity solution, and the breaking of the U(1)R symmetry down to Z2M proceeds via the Higgs mechanism.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.65.105007
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.65.105007
PACS:
11.30.-j, 04.65.+e