Two-dimensional SCFTs from D3-branes

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Publication date 07-2016
Journal The Journal of High Energy Physics
Article number 20
Volume | Issue number 2016 | 7
Number of pages 50
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract
We find a large class of two-dimensional N = (0, 2) SCFTs obtained by compactifying four-dimensional N = 1 quiver gauge theories on a Riemann surface. We study these theories using anomalies and c-extremization. The gravitational duals to these fixed points are new AdS3 solutions of IIB supergravity which we exhibit explicitly. Along the way we uncover a universal relation between the conformal anomaly coefficients of fourdimensional 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.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2016)020 (Final published version)
Published at
https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.09462 (Submitted manuscript)
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