{
  "id": "1310.6788",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2013-10-24T22:53:24.000Z",
  "updated": "2014-05-09T17:15:53.000Z",
  "title": "Gauge Theories, D-Branes and Holography",
  "authors": [
    "Frank Ferrari"
  ],
  "comment": "55 pages, 7 figures; v2: typos corrected",
  "doi": "10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.01.007",
  "categories": [
    "hep-th",
    "hep-lat"
  ],
  "abstract": "Based on a generalization of the string theoretic concept of D-brane probe, we propose a new approach to large N gauge theories which makes the holographic properties manifest. For any gauge theory, we define from first principles an effective action for a fixed number of \"probe\" D-branes in the presence of N \"background\" D-branes on which the gauge theory lives. This effective action is shown to encode all the information about the large N gauge theory. The analysis of the planar diagram expansion which computes the effective action yields a simple and generic mechanism explaining the emergence of holographic space dimensions: the probe D-branes move in a higher dimensional dual holographic space-time. The construction yields a new perspective on the notion of bulk space-time locality and draws unexpected links with some aspects of the 't Hooft Abelian projection ideas. It also provides a new non-perturbative approximation scheme, able to capture both the weak and strong coupling regimes. We sketchily illustrate the basic ideas on a few examples, including the pure four dimensional Yang-Mills theory.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2014-05-09T17:15:53.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "gauge theory",
      "effective action",
      "higher dimensional dual holographic space-time",
      "hooft abelian projection ideas",
      "holography"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "Elsevier",
      "journal": "Nuclear Physics B",
      "year": 2014,
      "month": "Mar",
      "volume": 880,
      "pages": 247
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 55,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 1262118,
      "adsabs": "2014NuPhB.880..247F"
    }
  }
}