1999/09/30 by L. Girardello, M. Petrini, M. Porrati +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0550-3213(99)00764-6
published as Nucl.Phys. B569 (2000) 451-469 · 20 pages, Latex. v2: References added and minor misprints corrected
arxiv created 1999/10/05 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We find an exact, N=1 supersymmetric kink solution of 5d gauged supergravity. We associate this solution with the RG flow from N=4 super Yang-Mills theory, deformed by a relevant operator, to pure N=1 super Yang-Mills in the IR. We test this identification by computing various QFT quantities using the supergravity dual: the tension of electric and magnetic strings and the gaugino condensate. As demanded by our identification, our kink solution is a true deformation of N=4, that exhibits confinement of quarks, magnetic screening, and spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking.