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Marginal deformations and RG flows for type IIB S-folds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-08-04 v2

Abstract

We construct a continuous one parameter family of AdS4×S1×S5AdS_4\times S^1\times S^5 S-fold solutions of type IIB string theory which have nontrivial SL(2,Z)SL(2,\mathbb{Z}) monodromy in the S1S^1 direction. The solutions span a subset of a conformal manifold that contains the known N=4\mathcal{N}=4 S-fold SCFT in d=3d=3, and generically preserve N=2\mathcal{N}=2 supersymmetry. We also construct RG flows across dimensions, from AdS5×S5AdS_5\times S^5, dual to N=4\mathcal{N}=4, d=4d=4 SYM compactified with a twisted spatial circle, to various AdS4×S1×S5AdS_4\times S^1\times S^5 S-fold solutions, dual to d=3d=3 SCFTs. We construct additional flows between the AdS5AdS_5 dual of the Leigh-Strassler SCFT and an N=2\mathcal{N}=2 S-fold as well as RG flows between various S-folds.

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@article{arxiv.2103.15201,
  title  = {Marginal deformations and RG flows for type IIB S-folds},
  author = {Igal Arav and Jerome P. Gauntlett and Matthew M. Roberts and Christopher Rosen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.15201},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

49 pages, 8 figures. Typos in table 4 corrected. Published version