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Superconformal RG interfaces in holography

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-12-30 v2

Abstract

We construct gravitational solutions that holographically describe two different d=4d=4 SCFTs joined together at a co-dimension one, planar RG interface and preserving d=3d=3 superconformal symmetry. The RG interface joins N=4\mathcal{N}=4 SYM theory on one side with the N=1\mathcal{N}=1 Leigh-Strassler SCFT on the other. We construct a family of such solutions, which in general are associated with spatially dependent mass deformations on the N=4\mathcal{N}=4 SYM side, but there is a particular solution for which these deformations vanish. We also construct a Janus solution with the Leigh-Strassler SCFT on either side of the interface. Gravitational solutions associated with superconformal interfaces involving ABJM theory and two d=3d=3 N=1\mathcal{N}=1 SCFTs with G2G_2 symmetry are also discussed and shown to have similar properties, but they also exhibit some new features.

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@article{arxiv.2007.07891,
  title  = {Superconformal RG interfaces in holography},
  author = {Igal Arav and K. C. Matthew Cheung and Jerome P. Gauntlett and Matthew M. Roberts and Christopher Rosen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.07891},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

33 pages, 12 pages; references added, typos fixed. Published version

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