Baryons And Branes In Anti de Sitter Space

Abstract

In the mapping from four-dimensional gauge theories to string theory in $AdS$ space, many features of gauge theory can be described by branes wrapped in different ways on $§^5$, $\RP^5$, or subspaces thereof. These include a baryon vertex coupling N external charges in the fundamental representation of SU(N), a bound state of $k$ gluons in SO(2k) gauge theory, strings coupled to external charges in the spinor representation of the gauge group, and domain walls across which the low energy gauge group changes.