Janus on the Brane
High Energy Physics - Theory
2020-09-17 v2
Abstract
We present a non-supersymmetric deformation of probe branes describing conformal defects of codimension two in AdS/CFT. The worldvolume of the probe branes is deformed from embedded in an background to an embedding of Janus form, which uses an slicing of and in which the brane bends along the slicing coordinate. In field theory terms this realizes conformal interfaces on codimension-two defects. We discuss these "Janus on the brane" solutions for D3-branes in the solution of Type IIB, realizing interfaces on surface defects in SYM, and show that similar solutions exist for probe branes in vacua of M-theory and in the solution of massive Type IIA.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2003.12080,
title = {Janus on the Brane},
author = {Michael Gutperle and Christoph F. Uhlemann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.12080},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
21 pages, 1 figure, 2 faces; v2: published version