Two-dimensional SCFTs from wrapped branes and c-extremization

By F. Benini, Nikolay Bobev. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013

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A bstractWe apply c-extremization [1], whose proof we review in full detail, to study twodimensional $ \mathcal{N} $ = (0, 2) superconformal field theories arising from the low-energy dynamics of D3-branes wrapped on Riemann surfaces and M5-branes wrapped on four-manifolds. We compute the exact central charges of these theories using anomalies and c-extremization. In all cases we also construct AdS3 supergravity solutions of type IIB and eleven-dimensional supergravity, which are holographic duals to the field theories at large N, and exactly reproduce the central charges computed via c-extremization.

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

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Elliptic Genera of Two-Dimensional $${\mathcal{N} = 2}$$N=2 Gauge Theories with Rank-One Gauge Groups (2013, methodology): “by the superpotential, the superconformal R-symmetries can be determined through the c-extremization principle of [20, 21].”
Black hole microstates in AdS4 from supersymmetric localization (2015, methodology): “In [16, 17], the central charge of the dimensionally reduced CFT2 has been computed via cextremization and successfully compared with the gravity prediction.”
A universal counting of black hole microstates in AdS4 (2017, methodology): “This prescription is analogous to the extremization principles that exist in four [36], three [28], and two-dimensional [37, 38] SCFTs with an Abelian R-symmetry.”
Fivebranes and 4-manifolds (2013, background): “Thus, in the case of the 6d (2, 0) theory of type G one finds [24,26]:”