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Moduli space of ${\cal N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills from AdS/CFT

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-03-20 v1

Abstract

We study N=4{\cal N}=4 super Yang-Mills theory compactified on a circle at zero temperature, with VEVs for two scalar bilinears and three independent current sources. We show that type IIB supergravity provides a complete holographic description of this setup, admitting both supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric AdS soliton solutions, which are asymptotically AdS5_5 and smooth in the IR. The current sources correspond in (2+1) dimensions to Q-ball charge densities for U(1)3SO(6)RU(1)^3\subset SO(6)_R, and are geometrically realized as twists along three angular directions of the S5S^5. We demonstrate that the bulk dynamics encodes the full vacuum structure of the dual field theory and explicitly reconstruct the supersymmetric moduli space.

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@article{arxiv.2603.18141,
  title  = {Moduli space of ${\cal N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills from AdS/CFT},
  author = {Andrés Anabalón and Horatiu Nastase and Carlos Nunez and Marcelo Oyarzo and Ricardo Stuardo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.18141},
  year   = {2026}
}

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17 pages, one figure