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Supersymmetric D3/D7 for holographic flavors on curved space

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-01-07 v1

Abstract

We derive a new class of supersymmetric D3/D7 brane configurations, which allow to holographically describe N=4 SYM coupled to massive N=2 flavor degrees of freedom on spaces of constant curvature. We systematically solve the κ\kappa-symmetry condition for D7-brane embeddings into AdS4_4-sliced AdS5×_5\timesS5^5, and find supersymmetric embeddings in a simple closed form. Up to a critical mass, these embeddings come in surprisingly diverse families, and we present a first study of their (holographic) phenomenology. We carry out the holographic renormalization, compute the one-point functions and attempt a field-theoretic interpretation of the different families. To complete the catalog of supersymmetric D3/D7 configurations, we construct analogous embeddings for flavored N=4 SYM on S4^4 and dS4_4.

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@article{arxiv.1508.06996,
  title  = {Supersymmetric D3/D7 for holographic flavors on curved space},
  author = {Andreas Karch and Brandon Robinson and Christoph F. Uhlemann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.06996},
  year   = {2016}
}

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37 pages, 9 figures