Type
Text
Type
Dissertation
Advisor
Leonardo Rastelli. | Peter van Nieuwenhuizen | Martin Rocek | Paul Grannis | Leon Takhtajan.
Date
2011-08-01
Keywords
Physics | AdS/CFT, Quantum field theory, S duality, Supersymmetry
Department
Department of Physics
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/71604
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
Recently, a lot of progress has been made towards understanding the strongly coupled supersymmetric quantum gauge theories. The problem of strong coupling for SU(N) gauge theories can be formulated in two separate regimes of interest, one at finite N and the other at large N in 't Hooft limit. In the first case electric/magnetic duality also called S-duality and in the second, AdS/CFT duality map the strongly coupled problem to a weakly coupled one. Both of the dualities have been well understood in the maximally supersymmetric 4d gauge theory, the N=4 super Yang-Mills. In this thesis, as a natural next step, we focus on the strong coupling behavior in N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories.
Recommended Citation
Gadde, Abhijit, "Aspects of Superconformal Field Theories" (2011). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 809.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/809