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AdS$_2$ near-horizons, defects and string dualities

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-05-31 v1

Abstract

We construct a new family of AdS2×S3×S2\text{AdS}_2\times S^3\times S^2 solutions to Type IIB supergravity arising as near-horizon geometries of D1-F1-D3-D5-NS5-D7 brane intersections preserving 4 supersymmetries. We show that a subclass of these solutions asymptotes locally to the AdS6×S2×Σ2\text{AdS}_6\times S^2\times \Sigma_2 solution to Type IIB supergravity holographically dual to the five dimensional Sp(N) fixed point theory. This suggests that these solutions can be interpreted as D1-F1-D3 line defects within this CFT. Switching off the D7-branes, we act with SL(2,R)\text{SL}(2, \mathbb{R}) to construct a second family of solutions that can be related to an AdS3×S3×S3\text{AdS}_3\times S^3\times S^3 class of M-theory backgrounds describing surface defects within the six dimensional (1,0) SCFT dual to AdS7/Zk×S4\text{AdS}_7/\mathbb{Z}_k\times S^4. Finally, using non-Abelian T-duality we construct new classes of AdS2×S2×S2\text{AdS}_2\times S^2\times S^2 solutions to Type IIA supergravity with 4 supercharges and elaborate on their M-theory origin.

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@article{arxiv.2212.11095,
  title  = {AdS$_2$ near-horizons, defects and string dualities},
  author = {Yolanda Lozano and Nicolò Petri and Cristian Risco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.11095},
  year   = {2023}
}

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24 pages

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