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We provide a comprehensive overview of the current status of higher-codimension defect systems. We review the holographic description and field theoretic properties of codimension-2 defects within the framework of defect Conformal Field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 George Georgiou , Dimitrios Zoakos

We obtain first order equations that determine a supersymmetric kink solution in five-dimensional N=8 gauged supergravity. The kink interpolates between an exterior anti-de Sitter region with maximal supersymmetry and an interior anti-de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-08 D. Z. Freedman , S. S. Gubser , K. Pilch , N. P. Warner

We calculate the holographic entanglement entropy in type IIB supergravity solutions that are dual to half-BPS disorder-type surface defects in ${\cal N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills theory. The entanglement entropy is calculated for a ball-shaped…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 Simon A. Gentle , Michael Gutperle , Chrysostomos Marasinou

We consider higher-spin gravity in (Euclidean) AdS_4, dual to a free vector model on the 3d boundary. In the bulk theory, we study the linearized version of the Didenko-Vasiliev black hole solution: a particle that couples to the gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-26 Adrian David , Yasha Neiman

We present a systematic construction of bulk solutions that are dual to CFT excited states. The bulk solution is constructed perturbatively in bulk fields. The linearised solution is universal and depends only on the conformal dimension of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-19 Ariana Christodoulou , Kostas Skenderis

We construct smooth asymptotically AdS_5xS^5 solutions of Type IIB supergravity corresponding to all the half-BPS surface operators in N=4 SYM. All the parameters labeling a half-BPS surface operator are identified in the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Jaume Gomis , Shunji Matsuura

We show that the non-gravitational sectors of certain 6d and 5d supergravity theories can be decomposed into superconformal field theories (SCFTs) which are coupled together by pairwise identifying and gauging mutual global symmetries. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-02 Hirotaka Hayashi , Patrick Jefferson , Hee-Cheol Kim , Kantaro Ohmori , Cumrun Vafa

A holographic method for implementing a particular supersymmetry-preserving deformation to 4d SCFTs is presented. At the heart of the procedure is a soliton solution of minimal $d=5$ gauged supergravity. Embedding this solution into ten-…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-25 Dimitrios Chatzis , Ali Fatemiabhari , Carlos Nunez , Peter Weck

Recently proposed double trace deformations of large $N$ holographic CFTs in four dimensions define a one parameter family of quantum field theories, which are interpreted in the bulk dual as living on successive finite radius…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-20 Vasudev Shyam

We find and thoroughly study new supergravity domain wall solutions which are holographic realizations of supersymmetry breaking strongly coupled gauge theories. We set ourselves in an N=2 gauged supergravity with a minimal content in order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-18 Riccardo Argurio , Daniele Musso , Diego Redigolo

We adapt the Hamilton-Jacobi method of holographic renormalization to scalar field theories in Minkowski spacetime with scattering boundary conditions. The approach yields a flat-space holographic dictionary in which the expectation value…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-19 Martin Ammon , Federico Capone , Christoph Sieling

During the last decade, the notion of an 't Hooft anomaly has been generalised to the case of discrete symmetries. An interesting instance, discussed by Tanizaki, is the mixed anomaly between the discrete axial symmetry and the flavour and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-11 Mohammad Akhond , Shigeki Sugimoto

In this paper, we analyze the question of replica symmetry in the bulk for multi-partite entanglement measures in the vacuum state of two dimensional holographic CFTs. We first define a class of multi-partite local unitary invariants,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-02 Abhijit Gadde , Jonathan Harper , Vineeth Krishna

We offer a streamlined and computationally powerful characterization of higher representations (higher charges) for defect operators under generalized symmetries, employing the powerful framework of Symmetry TFT $\mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{C})$.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-08 Christian Copetti

In this work we discuss the holographic description of states in the Hilbert space of (2+1)-dimensional quantum gravity, living on a time slice in the bulk. We focus on pure gravity coupled to pointlike sources for heavy spinning particles.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Joris Raeymaekers , Gideon Vos

We consider ($d+n+1$)-dimensional solutions of Einstein gravity with constant negative curvature. Regular solutions of this type are expected to be dual to the ground states of ($d+n$)-dimensional holographic CFTs on $AdS_d\times S^n$.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-23 Ahmad Ghodsi , Elias Kiritsis , Francesco Nitti

We propose an explicit realization of flat space holography in two dimensions where both sides of the duality are independently defined and the boundary theory is completely solvable. In the bulk, we define a novel $\mathcal{N}=1$ flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Felipe Rosso

We study how non-invertible self-duality defects arise in theories with a holographic dual. We focus on the paradigmatic example of $\mathfrak{su}(N)$ $\mathcal{N} = 4$ SYM. The theory is known to have non-invertible duality and triality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-02 Andrea Antinucci , Francesco Benini , Christian Copetti , Giovanni Galati , Giovanni Rizi

We consider the holographic computation of two dimensional conformal field theory partition functions on non-orientable surfaces. We classify the three dimensional geometries that give bulk saddle point contributions to the partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-07 Alexander Maloney , Simon F. Ross

We consider type-A higher-spin gravity in AdS_4, holographically dual to a free U(N) vector model on the boundary. We study the linearized version of the Didenko-Vasiliev "BPS black hole", which we view as this theory's equivalent of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-26 Vyacheslav Lysov , Yasha Neiman