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Twisted holography from the B-model on a 7-fold

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-12-09 v1

Abstract

I study a topological string construction of the holographic duality between Kodaira-Spencer gravity on the Calabi-Yau 7-fold O(1)4PT\mathcal{O}(-1)^4\to\mathbb{PT} in the presence of a stack of NN backreacted D5 branes wrapping twistor space, PT\mathbb{PT}. The theory on the stack of branes is the twistor uplift of self-dual N=4\mathcal{N}=4 gauge theory. I show that turning on a bulk superpotential and twisting the brane theory by the dual supercharge reduces the duality to twisted holography which relates the B-model on AdS3×S3SL(2,C)_3\times S^3\cong SL(2,\mathbb{C}) to the 2d chiral algebra subsector of N=4\mathcal{N}=4. I do an analogous computation for the twistor uplift of self-dual N=2\mathcal{N}=2 by working on the Calabi-Yau 7-fold O(2,2)O(0,1)2CP1×PT\mathcal{O}(-2,-2)\oplus \mathcal{O}(0,-1)^2\to\mathbb{CP}^1\times\mathbb{PT}. I also connect twists of the twistor uplift of self-dual N=4\mathcal{N}=4 with the matrix model found by supersymmetric localization on S4S^4 and the Dijkgraaf-Vafa matrix model construction.

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@article{arxiv.2512.07412,
  title  = {Twisted holography from the B-model on a 7-fold},
  author = {Seraphim Jarov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.07412},
  year   = {2025}
}

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22 pages, 2 figures

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