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$\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric S-folds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-05-26 v2

Abstract

Multi-parametric families of AdS4_{4} vacua with various amounts of supersymmetry and residual gauge symmetry are found in the [SO(1,1)×SO(6)]R12\,[\textrm{SO}(1,1) \times \textrm{SO}(6)] \ltimes \mathbb{R}^{12}\, maximal supergravity that arises from the reduction of type IIB supergravity on R×S5\,\mathbb{R} \times \textrm{S}^5\,. These provide natural candidates to holographically describe new strongly coupled three-dimensional CFT's which are localised on interfaces of N=4\,\mathcal{N}=4\, super-Yang--Mills theory. One such AdS4_{4} vacua features a symmetry enhancement to SU(2)×U(1)\,\textrm{SU}(2) \times \textrm{U}(1)\, while preserving N=2\,\mathcal{N}=2\, supersymmetry. Fetching techniques from the E7(7)\,\textrm{E}_{7(7)}\, exceptional field theory, its uplift to a class of N=2\,\mathcal{N}=2\, S-folds of type IIB supergravity of the form AdS4×S1×S5\,\textrm{AdS}_{4} \times \textrm{S}^{1} \times \textrm{S}^5\, involving S-duality twists of hyperbolic type along S1\,\textrm{S}^{1}\, is presented.

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@article{arxiv.2002.03692,
  title  = {$\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric S-folds},
  author = {Adolfo Guarino and Colin Sterckx and Mario Trigiante},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.03692},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

21 pages, 1 figure. v2: minor corrections, section 2.3.1 updated

R2 v1 2026-06-23T13:36:33.874Z