2019/01/31 by Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Alberto Zaffaroni · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep03(2019)108
published as JHEP 03 (2019) 108 · 35 pages
arxiv created 2019/03/25 · arxiv updated 2019/03/26
The gravitational dual of c-extremization for a class of (0,2) two-dimensional theories obtained by twisted compactifications of D3-brane gauge theories living at a toric Calabi-Yau three-fold has been recently proposed. The equivalence of this construction with c-extremization has been checked in various examples and holds also off-shell. In this note we prove that such equivalence holds for an arbitrary toric Calabi-Yau. We do it by generalizing the proof of the equivalence between a-maximization and volume minimization for four-dimensional toric quivers. By an explicit parameterization of the R-charges we map the trial right-moving central charge cr into the off-shell functional to be extremized in gravity. We also observe that the similar construction for M2-branes on ℂ4 is equivalent to the I-extremization principle that leads to the microscopic counting for the entropy of magnetically charged black holes in AdS4× S7. Also this equivalence holds off-shell.