Branes, Anti-Branes and Brauer Algebras in Gauge-Gravity duality

TL;DR

This paper constructs gauge theory operators dual to brane-anti-brane systems in AdS/CFT using Brauer algebras, revealing new insights into their orthogonality, counting, and stringy exclusion principles.

Contribution

It introduces a novel method using Brauer algebra projection operators to model brane-anti-brane systems in gauge theory, extending the understanding of their duality and quantum mechanics.

Findings

Operators satisfy orthogonality properties

Stringy exclusion principle has a new form

Change in gauge theory map when angular momenta sum to N

Abstract

We propose gauge theory operators built using a complex Matrix scalar which are dual to brane-anti-brane systems in $AdS_5 \times S^5 $, in the zero coupling limit of the dual Yang-Mills. The branes involved are half-BPS giant gravitons. The proposed operators dual to giant-anti-giant configurations satisfy the appropriate orthogonality properties. Projection operators in Brauer algebras are used to construct the relevant multi-trace Matrix operators. These are related to the ``coupled representations'' which appear in 2D Yang-Mills theory. We discuss the implications of these results for the quantum mechanics of a complex matrix model, the counting of non-supersymmetric operators and the physics of brane-anti-brane systems. The stringy exclusion principle known from the properties of half-BPS giant gravitons, has a new incarnation in this context. It involves a qualitative change in the map between brane-anti-brane states to gauge theory operators. In the case of a pair of sphere giant and anti-giant this change occurs when the sum of the magnitudes of their angular momenta reaches $N$.