Some aspects of abelian and nonabelian T-duality and the gauge/gravity correspondence

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Araujo, Thiago Rocha [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: AdS/CFT; Gauge/gravidade; Gauge/gravity; Supergravity; String theory; Supergravidade; Teoria de cordas
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/134300

In this thesis we study properties of type II supergravity solutions generated by abelian and nonabelian T-duality. Also we determine, through the gauge/gravity conjecture, some aspects of the field theory dual to the supergravity solutions obtained by T-dualization. We consider three distinct types of backgrounds solutions, namely, backgrounds that are dual to confining field theories, backgrounds dual to conformal field theories and those dual to nonrelativistic field theories. We conclude this thesis with an analysis of Wilson loops on backgrounds with nonrelativistic symmetries.