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Toric geometry and the dual of $c$-extremization

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-02-20 v2

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 Σg\Sigma_g, with an arbitrary partial topological twist for the global U(1)U(1) symmetries. This constitutes a rich, infinite class of two-dimensional (0,2)(0,2) theories. Under the assumption that such a theory flows to a SCFT, we show that the supergravity formulas for the central charge and RR-charges of BPS baryonic operators of the dual AdS3_3 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 Yp,qY^{p,q} and Xp,qX^{p,q} 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 cc-extremization, for arbitrary twist over Σg\Sigma_g. We furthermore conjecture that the trial central charge Z\mathscr{Z}, which we define in gravity, matches the field theory trial cc-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