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Class $\mathcal{S}$ superconformal indices from maximal supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-05-14 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We present a new gauging of maximal supergravity in five spacetime dimensions with gauge group containing ISO(5), involving the local scaling symmetry of the metric, and admitting a supersymmetric anti-de Sitter vacuum. We show this maximal supergravity to arise by consistent truncation of M-theory on the (non-spherical, non-parallelisable) six-dimensional geometry associated to a stack of NN M5-branes wrapped on a smooth Riemann surface. The existence of this truncation allows us to holographically determine the complete, universal spectrum of light operators of the dual four-dimensional N=2\mathcal{N}=2 theory of class S\mathcal{S}. We then compute holographically the superconformal index of the dual field theory at large-NN, finding perfect agreement with previously known field theory results in specific limits.

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@article{arxiv.2411.16837,
  title  = {Class $\mathcal{S}$ superconformal indices from maximal supergravity},
  author = {Ritabrata Bhattacharya and Abhay Katyal and Oscar Varela},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.16837},
  year   = {2025}
}

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5 pages. v2: Minor typos corrected. Version published in PRL

R2 v1 2026-06-28T20:12:11.281Z