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Spatially modulated and supersymmetric deformations of ABJM theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-05-01 v2

Abstract

We construct supersymmetric solutions of D=11D=11 supergravity, preserving 1/4 of the supersymmetry, that are holographically dual to ABJM theory which has been deformed by spatially varying mass terms depending on one of the two spatial directions. We show that the BPS equations reduce to the Helmholtz equation on the complex plane leading to rich classes of new solutions. In particular, the construction gives rise to infinite classes of supersymmetric boomerang RG flows, as well as generalising a known Janus solution.

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@article{arxiv.1812.11159,
  title  = {Spatially modulated and supersymmetric deformations of ABJM theory},
  author = {Igal Arav and Jerome P. Gauntlett and Matthew Roberts and Christopher Rosen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.11159},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

34 pages, 6 figures. Minor changes including a new analytic result on the refractive index. Version to be published