Four-dimensional SCFTs from M5-branes

By I. Bah, Christopher Beem, Nikolay Bobev, B. Wecht. 2012

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A bstractWe engineer a large new set of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N} = 1$ superconformal field theories by wrapping M5-branes on complex curves. We present new supersymmetric AdS5 M-theory backgrounds which describe these fixed points at large N, and then directly construct the dual four-dimensional CFTs for a certain subset of these solutions. Additionally, we provide a direct check of the central charges of these theories by using the M5-brane anomaly polynomial. This is a companion paper which elaborates upon results reported in [1].

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Non-Abelian T-duality and the AdS/CFT correspondence: New N=1 backgrounds (2013, methodology): “Our solution fits in this ansatz as we will soon demonstrate after a brief review of the solutions of [26, 27].”
N=1 theories of class S_k (2015, background): “Nevertheless, we can consider turning on these curvatures too as was done for k = 1, class S, in [17].”
N=1 Deformations and RG Flows of N=2 SCFTs (2016, background): “Our result here resolves a puzzle raised in [33], where they found the N = 1 SCFT coming from the N M5-branes wrapped on a sphere with normal bundle O(−3)⊕O(1) seem to violate the bound on the ratio of central charges a/c when N = 2.”
Partition Functions of $${\mathcal{N}=(2,2)}$$N=(2,2) Gauge Theories on S2 and Vortices (2012, background): “surprising aspects of the dynamics of multiple M5-branes – whose reduction on a Riemann surface Σ can give either an N = 2 [60] or an N = 1 [61, 62, 63] four-dimensional theory depending on the twist, some aspects being discussed in [64, 65, 66] – most notably the AGT correspondence [67].”
A topologically twisted index for three-dimensional supersymmetric theories (2015, background): “They put in correspondence observables in certain 4d N = 2 [64–66] and N = 1 [67, 68] supersymmetric gauge theories with 2d conformal or topological theories, by”
The (2, 0) superconformal bootstrap (2015, methodology): “bra operators to the four-point function will be xed in terms of c. What about the unxed BPS operators? For this example there are not that many options { namely, there is the quarter BPS multiplet D[0;4] and the B-series multiplets B[0;2] ‘ 1. The { 14 { superconformal blocks for these multiplets a”
Two-dimensional SCFTs from wrapped branes and c-extremization (2013, methodology): “To compute its ’t Hooft anomaly and the central charges, we resort again to integration of the anomaly polynomial [15–18].”