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S-folds and $AdS_{3}$ flows from the D3-brane

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-12-14 v2

Abstract

We investigate supersymmetric flows in type IIB supergravity that preserve an SO(2,2)SO(2,2) space-time symmetry and asymptote to AdS5×S5AdS_{5} \times S^5 at both endpoints. The flows are constructed as Janus-type R×AdS3\mathbb{R} \times AdS_{3} BPS domain-walls in the effective four-dimensional [SO(1,1)×SO(6)]R12[SO(1,1)\times{S}O(6)]\ltimes\mathbb{R}^{12} gauged maximal supergravity describing the massless sector of type IIB supergravity compactified on S1×S5S^1 \times S^{5}. The compactification includes an S-duality hyperbolic twist along the S1S^1 which, when combined with an appropriate choice of boundary conditions for the running scalars, generates special flows that develop an S-fold regime at their core, thus enhancing the space-time symmetry there to SO(2,3)SO(2,3). Via the AdS/CFT correspondence, the flows constructed here are conjectured to describe conformal interfaces in a circle compactification of N=4\mathcal{N}=4 SYM4\textrm{SYM}_{4}.

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@article{arxiv.2207.14015,
  title  = {S-folds and $AdS_{3}$ flows from the D3-brane},
  author = {Adolfo Guarino and Minwoo Suh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.14015},
  year   = {2022}
}

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v2: 32 pages, 9 figures, published version