Holographic duals of five-dimensional SCFTs on a Riemann surface

• DOI: 10.1007/jhep01(2019)058
• Publication Date: 2019-01-10T08:34:29Z
• Authors: Ibrahima Bah; Achilleas Passias; Peter Weck
• Keywords: Dual polyhedron; Compactification (mathematics)

We study the twisted compactifications of five-dimensional Seiberg SCFTs, with $SU_\mathcal{M}(2)\times E_{N_f+1}$ flavor symmetry, on a generic Riemann surface that preserves four supercharges. The SCFTs are obtained from decoupling limit $N$ D4-branes probing geometry $N_f<8$ D8-branes and an O8-plane. In addition to R-symmetry, we can also twist symmetry by turning background flux surface. particular, in string theory construction for $SU_\mathcal{M}(2)$ has geometric origin, similar topological R-symmetry. argue resulting low-energy three-dimensional theories describe dynamics world-volume wrapped O8/D8 background. be described as curve Calabi-Yau three-fold is sum two line bundles over it. This allows explicit $AdS_4$ solutions massive IIA supergravity dual theories, thereby providing strong evidence exist compactification SCFTs. compute observables such free energy scaling dimensions operators D2-brane probes; these have non-trivial dependence parameter $U(1)$ $SU_\mathcal{M}(2)$. exhibits $N^{5/2}$ emblematic