English

Two-dimensional SCFTs from wrapped branes and c-extremization

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-06-11 v2

Abstract

We apply c-extremization, whose proof we review in full detail, to study two-dimensional N=(0,2) superconformal field theories arising from the low-energy dynamics of D3-branes wrapped on Riemann surfaces and M5-branes wrapped on four-manifolds. We compute the exact central charges of these theories using anomalies and c-extremization. In all cases we also construct AdS_3 supergravity solutions of type IIB and eleven-dimensional supergravity, which are holographic duals to the field theories at large N, and exactly reproduce the central charges computed via c-extremization.

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@article{arxiv.1302.4451,
  title  = {Two-dimensional SCFTs from wrapped branes and c-extremization},
  author = {Francesco Benini and Nikolay Bobev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.4451},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

72 pages, 5 figures. This paper is a sequel to arXiv:1211.4030. v2: minor modifications and updated references

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