Spin two glueballs, positive energy theorems and the AdS / CFT correspondence

Aug, 1999
25 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 10 (1999) 037
e-Print:
Report number:
  • MCGILL-99-18

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Abstract:
We determine the spectrum of graviton excitations in the background geometry of the AdS soliton in p+2 dimensions. Via the AdS/CFT correspondence this corresponds to determining the spectrum of spin two excitations in the dual effective p-dimensional field theories For the cases of D3- and M5-branes these are the spin two glueballs of QCD_3 and QCD_4 respectively. For all values of p we find an exact degeneracy of the spectra of these tensor states and certain scalar excitations. Our results also extend the perturbative proof of a positive energy conjecture for asymptotically locally AdS spacetimes (originally proposed for p=3) to an arbritrary number of dimensions.
  • space-time: anti-de Sitter
  • field theory: conformal
  • soliton
  • graviton
  • polarization
  • any-dimensional
  • duality
  • fluctuation
  • spin: 2
  • glueball