Moduli space of ${\cal N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills from AdS/CFT
High Energy Physics - Theory
2026-03-20 v1
Abstract
We study 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 AdS and smooth in the IR. The current sources correspond in (2+1) dimensions to Q-ball charge densities for , and are geometrically realized as twists along three angular directions of the . We demonstrate that the bulk dynamics encodes the full vacuum structure of the dual field theory and explicitly reconstruct the supersymmetric moduli space.
Cite
@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