Four-dimensional SCFTs from M5-branes

• DOI: 10.1007/jhep06(2012)005
• Publication Date: 2012-06-04T13:15:21Z
• Authors: Ibrahima Bah; Christopher Beem; Nikolay Bobev; Brian Wecht
• Keywords: High Energy Physics - Theory; High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); 0103 physical sciences; FOS: Physical sciences; 01 natural sciences

45 pages, 11 figures<br/>We engineer a large new set of four-dimensional N=1 superconformal field theories by wrapping M5-branes on complex curves. We present new supersymmetric AdS_5 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 arXiv:1112:5487.<br/>