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Two-dimensional SCFTs from D3-branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-11-07 v2

Abstract

We find a large class of two-dimensional N=(0,2)\mathcal{N}=(0,2) SCFTs obtained by compactifying four-dimensional N=1\mathcal{N}=1 quiver gauge theories on a Riemann surface. We study these theories using anomalies and cc-extremization. The gravitational duals to these fixed points are new AdS3_3 solutions of IIB supergravity which we exhibit explicitly. Along the way we uncover a universal relation between the conformal anomaly coefficients of four-dimensional and two-dimensional SCFTs connected by an RG flow across dimensions. We also observe an interesting novel phenomenon in which the superconformal R-symmetry mixes with baryonic symmetries along the RG flow.

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@article{arxiv.1511.09462,
  title  = {Two-dimensional SCFTs from D3-branes},
  author = {Francesco Benini and Nikolay Bobev and P. Marcos Crichigno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.09462},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

55 pages, 2 figures. v2: minor correction and some typos fixed

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