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Baryon Charges in 4d Superconformal Field Theories and Their AdS Duals

Ken Intriligator, Brian Wecht

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0305046

Abstract

We consider general aspects of the realization of R and non-R flavor symmetries in the AdS5 x H5 dual of 4d N=1 superconformal field theories. We find a general prescription for computing the charges under these symmetries for baryonic operators, which uses only topological information (intersection numbers) on H5. We find and discuss a new correspondence between the nodes of the SCFT quiver diagrams and certain divisors in the associated geometry. We also discuss connections between the non-R flavor symmetries and the enhanced gauge symmetries in non-conformal theories obtained by adding wrapped branes.

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