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Holography for ${\cal N}=2^*$ on $S^4$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-12 v1

Abstract

We find the gravity dual of N=2\mathcal{N}=2^* super-Yang-Mills theory on S4S^4 and use holography to calculate the universal contribution to the corresponding S4S^4 free energy at large NN and large 't Hooft coupling. Our result matches the expression previously computed using supersymmetric localization in the field theory. This match represents a non-trivial precision test of holography in a non-conformal, Euclidean signature setting.

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@article{arxiv.1311.1508,
  title  = {Holography for ${\cal N}=2^*$ on $S^4$},
  author = {Nikolay Bobev and Henriette Elvang and Daniel Z. Freedman and Silviu S. Pufu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.1508},
  year   = {2015}
}

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31 pages + appendices, 3 figures

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