Toric geometry and the dual of $c$-extremization
Abstract
We consider D3-brane gauge theories at an arbitrary toric Calabi-Yau 3-fold cone singularity that are then further compactified on a Riemann surface , with an arbitrary partial topological twist for the global symmetries. This constitutes a rich, infinite class of two-dimensional theories. Under the assumption that such a theory flows to a SCFT, we show that the supergravity formulas for the central charge and -charges of BPS baryonic operators of the dual AdS solution may be computed using only the toric data of the Calabi-Yau 3-fold and the topological twist parameters. We exemplify the procedure for both the and 3-fold singularities, along with their associated dual quiver gauge theories, showing that the new supergravity results perfectly match the field theory results obtained using -extremization, for arbitrary twist over . We furthermore conjecture that the trial central charge , which we define in gravity, matches the field theory trial -function off-shell, and show this holds in non-trivial examples. Finally, we check our general geometric formulae against a number of explicitly known supergravity solutions.
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@article{arxiv.1812.05597,
title = {Toric geometry and the dual of $c$-extremization},
author = {Jerome P. Gauntlett and Dario Martelli and James Sparks},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.05597},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
62 pages. Typos corrected, published version