Holography, Brane Intersections and Six-dimensional SCFTs
Abstract
We study supersymmetric intersections of NS5-, D6- and D8-branes in type IIA string theory. We focus on the supergravity description of this system and identify a "near horizon" limit in which we recover the recently classified supersymmetric seven-dimensional AdS solutions of massive type IIA supergravity. Using a consistent truncation to seven-dimensional gauged supergravity we construct a universal supersymmetric deformation of these AdS vacua. In the holographic dual six-dimensional (1,0) superconformal field theory this deformation describes a universal RG flow on the tensor branch of the vacuum moduli space triggered by a vacuum expectation value for a protected scalar operator of dimension four.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1612.06324,
title = {Holography, Brane Intersections and Six-dimensional SCFTs},
author = {Nikolay Bobev and Giuseppe Dibitetto and Fridrik Freyr Gautason and Brecht Truijen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.06324},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
26 pages, 6 figures. v2: Minor corrections, published version