Janus configurations, Chern-Simons couplings, and The θ-Angle in N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory

2008/04/17 by Davide Gaiotto, Edward Witten · 14 citations
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paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep06(2010)097

published as JHEP 1006:097,2010 · 66 pp

arxiv created 2008/04/17 · openalex publication_date 2010/06/01 · arxiv updated 2014/11/18 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We generalize the half-BPS Janus configuration of four-dimensional N=4 super Yang-Mills theory to allow the theta-angle, as well as the gauge coupling, to vary with position. We show that the existence of this generalization is closely related to the existence of novel three-dimensional Chern-Simons theories with N=4 supersymmetry. Another closely related problem, which we also elucidate, is the D3-NS5 system in the presence of a four-dimensional theta-angle.

Citations

• Interface Yang–Mills, supersymmetry, and Janus
• Self-dual Chern-Simons Higgs systems with anN=3extended supersymmetry
• A dilatonic deformation ofAdS5and its field theory dual
• Gauge symmetry and supersymmetry of multiple M2-branes
• Topologically massive gauge theories

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• Construction of new D = 3, N=4 quiver gauge theories
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• Exact half-BPS string-junction solutions in six-dimensional supergravity
• Marginal deformations and RG flows for type IIB S-folds
• Thermodynamics and instabilities of a strongly coupled anisotropic plasma
• Membranes with a boundary
• Ω-deformation and quantization
• Boundary conditions in topological AdS4/CFT3
• Abelian dualities of N = (0, 4) boundary conditions
• The moduli spaces of S-fold CFTs
• Supersymmetric Janus solutions of dyonic ISO(7)-gauged N = 8 supergravity
• Exact relations between M2-brane theories with and without orientifolds

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