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The Holographic Conformal Manifold of 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ $S$-fold SCFTs

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-08-18 v1

Abstract

We employ a non-compact gauging of four-dimensional maximal supergravity to construct a two-parameter family of AdS4_4 J-fold solutions preserving N=2\mathcal{N}=2 supersymmetry. All solutions preserve u(1)×u(1)\mathfrak{u}(1)\times\mathfrak{u}(1) global symmetry and in special limits we recover the previously known su(2)×u(1)\mathfrak{su}(2)\times\mathfrak{u}(1) invariant N=2\mathcal{N}=2 and su(2)×su(2)\mathfrak{su}(2)\times\mathfrak{su}(2) invariant N=4\mathcal{N}=4 J-fold solutions. This family of AdS4_4 backgrounds can be uplifted to type IIB string theory and is holographically dual to the conformal manifold of a class of three-dimensional SS-fold SCFTs obtained from the N=4\mathcal{N}=4 T[U(N)]T[\text{U}(N)] theory of Gaiotto-Witten. We find the spectrum of supergravity excitations of the AdS4_4 solutions and use it to study how the operator spectrum of the three-dimensional SCFT depends on the exactly marginal couplings.

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@article{arxiv.2104.00977,
  title  = {The Holographic Conformal Manifold of 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ $S$-fold SCFTs},
  author = {Nikolay Bobev and Fridrik Freyr Gautason and Jesse van Muiden},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.00977},
  year   = {2021}
}

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30 pages, 3 figures