Flux compactifications in string theory: A comprehensive review

M Grana - Physics reports, 2006 - Elsevier
We present a pedagogical overview of flux compactifications in string theory, from the basic
ideas to the most recent developments. We concentrate on closed-string fluxes in type-II …

Unquenched flavor in the gauge/gravity correspondence

C Nunez, A Paredes, AV Ramallo - Advances in High Energy …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Within the AdS/CFT correspondence, we review the studies of field theories with a large
number of adjoint and fundamental fields, in the Veneziano limit. We concentrate in set‐ups …

From conformal to confining field theories using holography

A Fatemiabhari, C Nunez - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract We construct a new family of Type IIB backgrounds that are dual to five
dimensional conformal field theories compactified and deformed by VEVs of certain …

Confinement and D5-branes

C Nunez, M Oyarzo, R Stuardo - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract In this work we present new solutions of type IIB supergravity based on wrapped
D5 branes. We propose that two of these backgrounds are holographically dual to Quantum …

Negative scalar potentials and the swampland: an Anti-Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture

D Andriot, L Horer, G Tringas - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract In this paper, we derive a characterisation of negative scalar potentials, V< 0, in d-
dimensional effective theories of quantum gravity. This is achieved thanks to an Anti-Trans …

The baryonic branch of Klebanov-Strassler solution: A supersymmetric family of SU (3) structure backgrounds

A Butti, M Grana, R Minasian, M Petrini… - Journal of High Energy …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
We exhibit a one-parameter family of regular supersymmetric solutions of type IIB theory that
describes the baryonic branch of the Klebanov-Strassler (KS) theory. The solution is …

Towards the string dual of supersymmetric QCD-like theories

R Casero, C Nunez, A Paredes - … Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2006 - APS
We construct supergravity plus branes solutions, which we argue to be related to 4d N= 1
SQCD with a quartic superpotential. The geometries depend on the ratio N f/N c which can …

Holography for confined and deformed theories: TsT-generated solutions in type IIB supergravity

F Castellani, C Nunez - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract In this paper, we present a series of solutions of type IIB Supergravity, obtained
through the TsT deformation of a seed background that is holographically dual to\(\mathcal …

Introduction to the AdS-CFT correspondence

A Zaffaroni - Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
These are introductory notes on the anti-de Sitter-conformal field theory (AdS-CFT)
correspondence. We discuss the basic properties of the duality known as AdS-CFT. We …

Meson spectroscopy from holomorphic probes on the warped deformed conifold

S Kuperstein - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
We study D7 brane probes holomorphically embedded in the Klebanov-Strassler model.
Analyzing the κ-symmetry condition for D7 branes wrap** a 4-cycle of a deformed conifold …