The supergravity dual of a theory with dynamical supersymmetry breaking

Abstract

We study the large-N limit of a little string theory that reduces in the IR to U(N) N = 1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills with Chern-Simons coupling k. Witten has shown that this field theory preserves supersymmetry if k ≥ N/2 and he conjectured that it breaks supersymmetry if k