Research Interest of Mohammad Edalati

      Publication 1:  Spacelike strings and jet quenching from a Wilson loop, hep-th/0612157 (URL)
      Publication 2:  No-drag string configurations for steadily moving quark-antiquark pairs in a thermal bath, hep-th/0608118 (URL)
      Publication 3:  Generalized Konishi anomaly, Seiberg duality and singular effective superpotentials, hep-th/0511272 (URL)

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Statement of Interest:


  My research centers around various theoretical as well 
as phenomenological aspects of string theory and its 
connections to the strong-coupling phenomena in gauge 
theories with or without supersymmetry. 

Recently, I have been working on various projects in AdS/CFT. In collaboration with a team of faculties, 
postdocs and graduate students, I am trying to find 
the superconformal gauge theory dual to the geometry 
of a stack of D-branes placed at the singular tip of 
a particular non-toric Calabi-Yau manifold (introduced 
by some mathematicians primarily Boyer and Galicki). 
Also, in another project in AdS/CFT with more phenomenological flavor, we (Philip Argyres, Justin Vazquez-Poritz and I) are working on how to calculate transport properties of hot QCD plasma produced at RHIC using a gravity solution (a black hole solution) which 
duals to a meson moving through the plasma. In two papers, we analyzed various timelike, spacelike and Euclidean 
string configurations which could, in principle, be used 
to determine some transport properties. Although we have 
so far considered only no drag solutions, we are now 
analyzing more realistic dragged solutions.

I have also been working on singular superpotentials 
of supersymmetric gauge theories with four supercharges 
in varoius dimensions. In a series of papers, we (Philip 
Argyres and I) showed the usefulness of such 
superpotentials. In particular, using some non-trivial 
consistency checks, we showed that these superpotentials, 
albeit singular, must exist, are perfectly sensible, 
and can be used to compute in a simple way multi-fermion 
F-terms recently calculated by C. Beasley and E. Witten 
using instanton methods. We are now working to find the 
gravity dual of such superpotentials (F-terms), in the 
context of Klebanov-Maldacena solution.