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Gluing two discs into a spindle

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-11-14 v2

Abstract

We construct AdS5×Σ_5 \times \Sigma solutions of D=7D=7 gauged supergravity where Σ\Sigma is a disc, also known as a half-spindle, and uplift them to D=11D=11 supergravity. By computing the anomaly polynomial of the M5-brane theory compactified on Σ\Sigma in the large NN limit, we obtain the off-shell central charges of the dual D=4D=4, N=1\mathcal{N}=1 superconformal field theory to disc solutions. These off-shell central charges decompose into contributions from the center and the boundary of the disc and are referred to as the gravitational blocks for disc. By suitably gluing the gravitational blocks for two discs along their boundaries, we reproduce the off-shell central charge for a single spindle.

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@article{arxiv.2507.06097,
  title  = {Gluing two discs into a spindle},
  author = {Hyojoong Kim and Nakwoo Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.06097},
  year   = {2025}
}

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15 pages; v2: published version

R2 v1 2026-07-01T03:51:52.525Z