Class $\mathcal{S}$ superconformal indices from maximal supergravity
Abstract
We present a new gauging of maximal supergravity in five spacetime dimensions with gauge group containing ISO(5), involving the local scaling symmetry of the metric, and admitting a supersymmetric anti-de Sitter vacuum. We show this maximal supergravity to arise by consistent truncation of M-theory on the (non-spherical, non-parallelisable) six-dimensional geometry associated to a stack of M5-branes wrapped on a smooth Riemann surface. The existence of this truncation allows us to holographically determine the complete, universal spectrum of light operators of the dual four-dimensional theory of class . We then compute holographically the superconformal index of the dual field theory at large-, finding perfect agreement with previously known field theory results in specific limits.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2411.16837,
title = {Class $\mathcal{S}$ superconformal indices from maximal supergravity},
author = {Ritabrata Bhattacharya and Abhay Katyal and Oscar Varela},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.16837},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
5 pages. v2: Minor typos corrected. Version published in PRL