2024/03/25 by Connor Behan, Behan, Connor, Shai M. Chester +3 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Advanced Computational Techniques and Applications #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2403.17049
openalex publication_date 2024/03/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We consider type IIB string theory with N D3 branes and various configurations of sevenbranes, such that the string coupling gs is fixed to a constant finite value. These are the simplest realizations of F-theory, and are holographically dual to rank N Argyres-Douglas conformal field theories (CFTs) with SU(2) and SU(3) flavor groups, and Minahan-Nemeschansky CFTs with E6, E7 and E8 flavor groups. We use the Seiberg-Witten curves of these theories to compute the mass deformed sphere free energy F(m) at large N in terms of novel matrix models with non-polynomial potentials. We show how F(m) can be used along with the analytic bootstrap to fix the large N expansion of flavor multiplet correlators in these CFTs, which are dual to scattering of gluons on AdS5× S3, and in the flat space limit determine the effective theory of sevenbranes in F-theory. As a first step in this program, we use the matrix models to compute the log N term in F(m) and thereby fix the logarithmic threshold in the AdS5× S3 holographic correlator, which matches the flat space prediction.