The gravity duals of N=2 superconformal field theories

By D. Gaiotto, J. Maldacena. 2009

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We study the gauge/gravity duality for theories with four dimensional ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetries. We consider the large class of generalized quiver field theories constructed recently by one of us (D.G.). These field theories can also be viewed as the IR limit of M5 branes wrapping a Riemann surface with punctures. We give a prescription for constructing the corresponding geometries and we discuss a few special cases in detail. There is a precise match for various quantities between the field theory and the M-theory description.

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Infinite Chiral Symmetry in Four Dimensions (2013, background): “Generically, TN has SU(N)1 × SU(N)2 × SU(N)3 flavor symmetry, and central charges [58, 59]”
Tinkertoys for Gaiotto duality (2010, methodology): “Irregular punctures will also appear in some fixtures associated to interacting SCFTs.”
The Hilbert series of the one instanton moduli space (2010, methodology): “This theory is also known as the T3 theory [14, 15, 19, 20] and is denoted by the left picture of Figure 14.”
Nilpotent orbits and codimension-two defects of 6d N=(2,0) theories (2012, background): “The study of these untwisted and twisted defects was initiated in [11], and further developed in various papers including [12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22].”
Mirrors of 3d Sicilian theories (2010, background): “their gravity dual [4] and a IIB brane realization [5] have been found, their superconformal indices have been studied [6, 7], the theories have been extended to the case with orientifolds [8, 9], or lower N = 1 supersymmetry [10, 11], etc.”
General Argyres-Douglas theory (2012, background): “The regular singularity cases are studied in [53].”
Wall-crossing in coupled 2d-4d systems (2011, background): “The local operator which descends from a surface defect wrapping C was identified in [60] with a specific chiral operator which receives vevs on the Higgs branch.”
A& B model approaches to surface operators and Toda thoeries (2010, result): “36) This number precisely agrees with the number of parameters in the TN theory, as extracted from [3, 34], which in turn also agrees with the number of parameters in the proposed five-brane web description of TN [13].”
On the superconformal index of Argyres–Douglas theories (2015, background): “which agrees with the computation of the central charges in [47] (it is also easy to see that, in the case of N 2 = , i.”
Webs of five-branes and = 2 superconformal field theories (2009, background): “It was shown in [4] that there are more general punctures or defects one can insert on the M5-brane worldvolume, naturally labeled by Young tableaux consisting of N boxes.”
Four-dimensional SCFTs from M5-branes (2012, methodology): “This theory has been analyzed in great detail in [17], so we keep our discussion brief.”