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Consistent KK truncations for M5-branes wrapped on Riemann surfaces

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-01-08 v2

Abstract

We construct a consistent Kaluza-Klein reduction of D=11D=11 supergravity on Σ2×S4\Sigma_2\times S^4, where Σ2=S2,R2\Sigma_2=S^2,\mathbb{R}^2 or H2H^2, or a quotient thereof, at the level of the bosonic fields. The result is a gauged N=4N=4, D=5D=5 supergravity theory coupled to three vector multiplets, with the gauging lying in an SO(2)×SE(3)SO(5,3)SO(2)\times SE(3)\subset SO(5,3) subgroup of the SO(1,1)×SO(5,3)SO(1,1)\times SO(5,3) global symmetry group of the ungauged theory. For Σ2=H2\Sigma_2=H^2, the D=5D=5 theory has a maximally supersymmetric AdS5AdS_5 vacuum which uplifts to the known solution of D=11D=11 supergravity corresponding to M5-branes wrapping a Riemann surface with genus greater than one and dual to an N=2N=2 SCFT in d=4d=4. For Σ2=S2\Sigma_2=S^2, we find two AdS5AdS_5 solutions, one of which is new, and both of which are unstable. There is an additional subtruncation to an N=2N=2 gauged supergravity coupled to two vector multiplets, with very special real manifold SO(1,1)×SO(1,1)SO(1,1)\times SO(1,1), and a single hypermultiplet, with quaternionic K\"ahler manifold SU(2,1)/S[U(2)×U(1)]SU(2,1)/S[U(2)\times U(1)] and gauging associated with an SO(2)×RSU(2,1)SO(2)\times\mathbb{R}\subset SU(2,1) subgroup.

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@article{arxiv.1906.08900,
  title  = {Consistent KK truncations for M5-branes wrapped on Riemann surfaces},
  author = {K. C. Matthew Cheung and Jerome P. Gauntlett and Christopher Rosen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.08900},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

40 pages. Very minor changes, reference added, published version

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