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Universal consistent truncation for 6d/7d gauge/gravity duals

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-12-11 v2

Abstract

Recently, AdS_7 solutions of IIA supergravity have been classified; there are infinitely many of them, whose expression is known analytically, and with internal space of S^3 topology. Their field theory duals are six-dimensional (1,0) SCFT's. In this paper we show that for each of these AdS_7 solutions there exists a consistent truncation from massive IIA supergravity to minimal gauged supergravity in seven dimensions. This theory has an SU(2) gauge group, and a single scalar, whose value is related to a certain distortion of the internal S^3. This explains the universality observed in recent work on AdS_5 and AdS_4 solutions dual to compactifications of the (1,0) SCFT_6's. Thanks to previous work on the minimal gauged supergravity, the truncation also implies the existence of holographic RG-flows connecting those solutions to the AdS_7 vacuum, as well as new classes of IIA AdS_3 solutions.

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@article{arxiv.1506.05462,
  title  = {Universal consistent truncation for 6d/7d gauge/gravity duals},
  author = {Achilleas Passias and Andrea Rota and Alessandro Tomasiello},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.05462},
  year   = {2015}
}

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23 pages; v2: references added, minor changes, additions and corrections

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