Surface defects in holographic 5d SCFTs
High Energy Physics - Theory
2021-06-03 v2
Abstract
We use holography to study codimension-2 surface defects in 5d SCFTs engineered by 5-brane webs. The three-dimensional defects are realized by D3-branes ending on the brane web. We identify the holographic representation of the defects in Type IIB solutions as probe D3-branes, and study conformal and non-conformal defects which, respectively, preserve one half and one quarter of the supersymmetry. For a sample of 5d SCFTs, including the theories, we provide explicit solutions for conformal and non-conformal defects. For the conformal defects we obtain their contribution to the free energy on .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2012.14547,
title = {Surface defects in holographic 5d SCFTs},
author = {Michael Gutperle and Christoph F. Uhlemann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.14547},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
21 pages, 8 figures; v2: JHEP version, updated references