scholarly journals The holographic conformal manifold of 3d $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 2 S-fold SCFTs

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolay Bobev ◽  
Friðrik Freyr Gautason ◽  
Jesse van Muiden
Keyword(s):  
String Theory ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Parameter Family ◽  
Global Symmetry ◽  
Maximal Supergravity ◽  
All Solutions ◽  
Operator Spectrum ◽  
Type Iib String Theory ◽  
Two Parameter

Abstract We employ a non-compact gauging of four-dimensional maximal supergravity to construct a two-parameter family of AdS4 J-fold solutions preserving $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 supersymmetry. All solutions preserve $$ \mathfrak{u} $$ u (1) × $$ \mathfrak{u} $$ u (1) global symmetry and in special limits we recover the previously known $$ \mathfrak{su} $$ su (2) × $$ \mathfrak{u} $$ u (1) invariant $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 and $$ \mathfrak{su} $$ su (2) × $$ \mathfrak{su} $$ su (2) invariant $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 J-fold solutions. This family of AdS4 backgrounds can be uplifted to type IIB string theory and is holographically dual to the conformal manifold of a class of three-dimensional S-fold SCFTs obtained from the $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 T [U(N)] theory of Gaiotto-Witten. We find the spectrum of supergravity excitations of the AdS4 solutions and use it to study how the operator spectrum of the three-dimensional SCFT depends on the exactly marginal couplings.

scholarly journals Moffatt-type flows in a trihedral cone

2013 ◽  
Vol 725 ◽  
pp. 446-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian F. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Linear Combination ◽  
Particle Motion ◽  
Particle Trajectory ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Parameter Family ◽  
The Other ◽  
Transient Phase ◽  
Primary Flow ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Two Parameter

AbstractThe three-dimensional analogue of Moffatt eddies is derived for a corner formed by the intersection of three orthogonal planes. The complex exponents of the first few modes are determined and the flows resulting from the primary modes (those which decay least rapidly as the apex is approached and, hence, should dominate the near-apex flow) examined in detail. There are two independent primary modes, one symmetric, the other antisymmetric, with respect to reflection in one of the symmetry planes of the cone. Any linear combination of these modes yields a possible primary flow. Thus, there is not one, but a two-parameter family of such flows. The particle-trajectory equations are integrated numerically to determine the streamlines of primary flows. Three special cases in which the flow is antisymmetric under reflection lead to closed streamlines. However, for all other cases, the streamlines are not closed and quasi-periodic limiting trajectories are approached when the trajectory equations are integrated either forwards or backwards in time. A generic streamline follows the backward-time trajectory in from infinity, undergoes a transient phase in which particle motion is no longer quasi-periodic, before being thrown back out to infinity along the forward-time trajectory.

scholarly journals Finding AdS5 × S5 in 2+1 dimensional SCFT physics

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Van Raamsdonk ◽  
Chris Waddell
Keyword(s):  
String Theory ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
The Other ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Asymptotic Region ◽  
Superconformal Field Theories ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
The World ◽  
Type Iib String Theory ◽  
Dual Geometries

Abstract We study solutions of type IIB string theory dual to $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on half of ℝ3,1 coupled to holographic three-dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs) at the edge of this half-space. The dual geometries are asymptotically AdS5×S5 with boundary geometry ℝ2,1×ℝ+, with a geometrical end-of-the-world (ETW) brane cutting off the other half of the asymptotic region of the would-be Poincaré AdS5×S5. We show that by choosing the 3D SCFT appropriately, this ETW brane can be pushed arbitrarily far towards the missing asymptotic region, recovering the “missing” half of Poincaré AdS5×S5. We also show that there are 3D SCFTs whose dual includes a wedge of Poincaré AdS5×S5 with an angle arbitrarily close to π, with geometrical ETW branes on either side.

scholarly journals The spectrum of marginally-deformed $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 2 CFTs with AdS4 S-fold duals of type IIB

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mattia Cesàro ◽  
Gabriel Larios ◽  
Oscar Varela
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Conformal Field Theory ◽  
Riemann Surface ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Operator Spectrum ◽  
Two Parameter ◽  
Kaluza Klein

Abstract A holographic duality was recently established between an $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 non-geometric AdS4 solution of type IIB supergravity in the so-called S-fold class, and a three- dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) defined as a limit of $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 super-Yang-Mills at an interface. Using gauged supergravity, the $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 conformal manifold (CM) of this CFT has been assessed to be two-dimensional. Here, we holographically characterise the large-N operator spectrum of the marginally-deformed CFT. We do this by, firstly, providing the algebraic structure of the complete Kaluza-Klein (KK) spectrum on the associated two-parameter family of AdS4 solutions. And, secondly, by computing the $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 super-multiplet dimensions at the first few KK levels on a lattice in the CM, using new exceptional field theory techniques. Our KK analysis also allows us to establish that, at least at large N, this $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 CM is topologically a non-compact cylindrical Riemann surface bounded on only one side.

scholarly journals Marginal deformations and RG flows for type IIB S-folds

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Igal Arav ◽  
Jerome P. Gauntlett ◽  
Matthew M. Roberts ◽  
Christopher Rosen
Keyword(s):  
String Theory ◽  
Parameter Family ◽  
Type Iib String Theory ◽  
Marginal Deformations

Abstract We construct a continuous one parameter family of AdS4× S1× S5 S-fold solutions of type IIB string theory which have nontrivial SL(2, ℤ) monodromy in the S1 direction. The solutions span a subset of a conformal manifold that contains the known $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 S-fold SCFT in d = 3, and generically preserve $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 supersymmetry. We also construct RG flows across dimensions, from AdS5× S5, dual to $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4, d = 4 SYM compactified with a twisted spatial circle, to various AdS4×S1×S5 S-fold solutions, dual to d = 3 SCFTs. We construct additional flows between the AdS5 dual of the Leigh-Strassler SCFT and an $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 S-fold as well as RG flows between various S-folds.

Singularities of line congruences

2003 ◽  
Vol 133 (6) ◽  
pp. 1341-1359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shyuichi Izumiya ◽  
Kentaro Saji ◽  
Nobuko Takeuchi
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Parameter Family ◽  
General Line ◽  
Line Congruence ◽  
Lagrangian Singularities ◽  
Generic Singularities ◽  
Two Parameter

A line congruence is a two-parameter family of lines in R3. In this paper we study singularities of line congruences. We show that generic singularities of general line congruences are the same as those of stable mappings between three-dimensional manifolds. Moreover, we also study singularities of normal congruences and equiaffine normal congruences from the viewpoint of the theory of Lagrangian singularities.

PHASE HOLONOMY OF THE VACUUM IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL GAUGE THEORIES

1992 ◽  
Vol 07 (20) ◽  
pp. 4937-4948
Author(s):  
ROBERT LINK
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Gauge Field ◽  
Gauge Theories ◽  
Magnetic Monopole ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Parameter Family ◽  
Two Parameter ◽  
Dirac Hamiltonian

The phase two-form of Berry in the neighborhood of a degeneracy of the Fock vacuum of a semisimple, nonabelian, second-quantized, relativistic fermion-background gauge field Hamiltonian is shown to be that of the Dirac magnetic monopole—thus extending a result of Berry to field theory. The Dirac Hamiltonian for an SU(2) fermion on the two-sphere is solved in a particular two-parameter family of background instanton gauge potentials as an explicit illustrative example.

scholarly journals Notes on hyperloops in $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 Chern-Simons-matter theories

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadav Drukker ◽  
Marcia Tenser ◽  
Diego Trancanelli
Keyword(s):  
Moduli Spaces ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Discrete Data ◽  
Parameter Family ◽  
Wilson Loops ◽  
Matter Theory ◽  
M Theory ◽  
Chern Simons ◽  
Two Parameter ◽  
Matter Fields

Abstract We present new circular Wilson loops in three-dimensional $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 quiver Chern-Simons-matter theory on S3. At any given node of the quiver, a two-parameter family of operators can be obtained by opportunely deforming the 1/4 BPS Gaiotto-Yin loop. Including then adjacent nodes, the coupling to the bifundamental matter fields allows to enlarge this family and to construct loop operators based on superconnections. We discuss their classification, which depends on both discrete data and continuous parameters subject to an identification. The resulting moduli spaces are conical manifolds, similar to the conifold of the 1/6 BPS loops of the ABJ(M) theory.

scholarly journals Triality and the consistent reductions on AdS3 × S3

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Camille Eloy ◽  
Gabriel Larios ◽  
Henning Samtleben
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Nonlinear Dynamics ◽  
Parameter Space ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Parameter Family ◽  
Duality Group ◽  
Consistent Truncations ◽  
Two Parameter ◽  
Kaluza Klein

Abstract We study compactifications on AdS3×S3 and deformations thereof. We exploit the triality symmetry of the underlying duality group SO(4,4) of three-dimensional supergravity in order to construct and relate new consistent truncations. For non-chiral D = 6, $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N 6d = (1, 1) supergravity, we find two different consistent truncations to three-dimensional supergravity, retaining different subsets of Kaluza-Klein modes, thereby offering access to different subsectors of the full nonlinear dynamics. As an application, we construct a two-parameter family of AdS3 × M3 backgrounds on squashed spheres preserving U(1)2 isometries. For generic value of the parameters, these solutions break all supersymmetries, yet they remain perturbatively stable within a non-vanishing region in parameter space. They also contain a one-parameter family of $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = (0, 4) supersymmetric AdS3 × M3 backgrounds on squashed spheres with U(2) isometries. Using techniques from exceptional field theory, we determine the full Kaluza-Klein spectrum around these backgrounds.

scholarly journals 5d and 4d SCFTs: canonical singularities, trinions and S-dualities

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyril Closset ◽  
Simone Giacomelli ◽  
Sakura Schäfer-Nameki ◽  
Yi-Nan Wang
Keyword(s):  
String Theory ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Flavor Symmetry ◽  
Crepant Resolution ◽  
Superconformal Field Theories ◽  
Hypersurface Singularities ◽  
Canonical Singularities ◽  
Type Iib String Theory ◽  
M Theory

Abstract Canonical threefold singularities in M-theory and Type IIB string theory give rise to superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in 5d and 4d, respectively. In this paper, we study canonical hypersurface singularities whose resolutions contain residual terminal singularities and/or 3-cycles. We focus on a certain class of ‘trinion’ singularities which exhibit these properties. In Type IIB, they give rise to 4d $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 SCFTs that we call $$ {D}_p^b $$ D p b (G)-trinions, which are marginal gaugings of three SCFTs with G flavor symmetry. In order to understand the 5d physics of these trinion singularities in M-theory, we reduce these 4d and 5d SCFTs to 3d $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 theories, thus determining the electric and magnetic quivers (or, more generally, quiverines). In M-theory, residual terminal singularities give rise to free sectors of massless hypermultiplets, which often are discretely gauged. These free sectors appear as ‘ugly’ components of the magnetic quiver of the 5d SCFT. The 3-cycles in the crepant resolution also give rise to free hypermultiplets, but their physics is more subtle, and their presence renders the magnetic quiver ‘bad’. We propose a way to redeem the badness of these quivers using a class $$ \mathcal{S} $$ S realization. We also discover new S-dualities between different $$ {D}_p^b $$ D p b (G)-trinions. For instance, a certain E8 gauging of the E8 Minahan-Nemeschansky theory is S-dual to an E8-shaped Lagrangian quiver SCFT.

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