Within the AdS/CFT correspondence, we review the studies of field theories with a large
number of adjoint and fundamental fields, in the Veneziano limit. We concentrate in set‐ups …

We find the gravity dual of a marginal deformation of Script N= 4 super Yang Mills, and
discuss some of its properties. This deformation is intimately connected with an SL (2, Bbb …

We develop a systematic and efficient method of counting single-trace and multi-trace BPS
operators with two supercharges, for world-volume gauge theories of N D-brane probes for …

Abstract Recently Lunin and Maldacena used an SL (3, Bbb R) transformation of the AdS 5×
S 5 background to generate a supergravity solution dual to a so-called β-deformation of …

We provide a general set of rules for extracting the data defining a quiver gauge theory from
a given toric Calabi-Yau singularity. Our method combines information from the geometry …

We propose a programme for systematically counting the single and multi-trace gauge
invariant operators of a gauge theory. Key to this is the plethystic function. We expound in …

We study the problem of finding exactly marginal deformations of\(\mathcal {N}= 1\)
superconformal field theories in four dimensions. We find that the only way a marginal chiral …

In theories without known Lagrangian descriptions, knowledge of the global symmetries is
often one of the few pieces of information we have at our disposal. Gauging (part of) such …

A bstract We continue the study of Lagrangian descriptions of\(\mathcal {N}= 2\) Argyres-
Douglas theories. We use our recent interpretation in terms of sequential confinement to …

We review recent developments in the theory of brane tilings and four‐dimensional 𝒩= 1
supersymmetric quiver gauge theories. This review consists of two parts. In part I, we …