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Holographic deformations of matrix models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-06-03 v3

Abstract

We study maximal supergravity in two dimensions, obtained from reduction of IIA supergravity on an S8S^8 sphere. The theory captures the low-lying fluctuations around the non-conformal D0-brane near-horizon geometry, dual to operators in the BFSS matrix model. Upon exciting some of the supergravity scalars, we construct half-supersymmetric domain wall solutions preserving SO(p)×SO(9p)SO(p)\times SO(9-p) subgroups of the original SO(9)SO(9) symmetry. We determine their uplift to ten dimensions and the corresponding distributions of D0-branes. Finally, we compute the fluctuations around these domain wall backgrounds, corresponding to holographic two-point correlation functions in the Coulomb branch of the matrix model.

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@article{arxiv.2503.15954,
  title  = {Holographic deformations of matrix models},
  author = {Alfred Bovon and Henning Samtleben and Dimitrios Tsimpis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.15954},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

47 pages, 13 figures, v3: Added comments, references, and an extended appendix on the holographic map. Version to appear in JHEP

R2 v1 2026-06-28T22:27:56.267Z