Aspects of Irregular Punctures via Holography
Abstract
We present new families of solutions in M-theory preserving 4d supersymmetry. We perform a systematic analysis of holographic observables for these solutions, providing evidence for an interpretation in terms of 4d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) of Argyres-Douglas type, realized in class via a sphere with one irregular, and one regular puncture. The gravity solutions exhibit internal M5-brane sources that correspond to the irregular puncture. For a family of solutions, we identify explicitly the class puncture data and perform a detailed match, including Higgs branch operators. For other families we comment on proposed field theory duals, based on irregular punctures labeled by nested Young tableaux.
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@article{arxiv.2207.10094,
title = {Aspects of Irregular Punctures via Holography},
author = {Ibrahima Bah and Federico Bonetti and Emily Nardoni and Thomas Waddleton},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.10094},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
50 pages plus appendices, 11 figures