Heating up the Baryonic Branch with U-duality: a unified picture of conifold black holes

TL;DR

This paper explores the application of U-duality transformations to non-extremal D5 brane backgrounds, generating new solutions related to the Baryonic Branch of the Klebanov-Strassler model, and discusses their theoretical implications.

Contribution

It introduces new non-extremal solutions of the Baryonic Branch via U-duality applied to D5 branes, expanding understanding of dualities in string theory backgrounds.

Findings

Generated new non-extremal Baryonic Branch solutions.

Analyzed U-duality effects on Dp branes and dual gauge theories.

Discussed asymptotic behaviors and decoupling limits of solutions.

Abstract

We study different aspects of a U-duality recently presented by Maldacena and Martelli and apply it to non-extremal backgrounds. In particular, starting from new non-extremal wrapped D5 branes we generate new non-extremal generalizations of the Baryonic Branch of the Klebanov-Strassler solution. We also elaborate on different conceptual aspects of these U-dualities, like its action on (extremal and non-extremal) Dp branes, dual models for Yang-Mills-like theories, generic asymptotics and decoupling limit of the generated solutions.