Holographic effective field theories: a case study

The identification of the low-energy effective field theory associated with a given microscopic strongly interacting microscopic theory constitutes a fundamental problem in theoretical physics, particularly challenging when the theory is not sufficiently constrained by symmetries. Recently, a new approach has been proposed, which addresses this problem for a large class of four-dimensional minimally supersymmetric strongly coupled field theories, admitting a dual weakly coupled holographic description in string theory. This approach includes a precise prescription for the derivation of the associated effective theories through holography. The aim of this thesis is to explore these techniques by specializing them to a specific model whose effective theory has not been investigated before.