Wrapped Branes and Punctured Horizons

2019/12/10 by Nikolay Bobev, Pieter Bomans, Fridrik Freyr Gautason · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep06(2020)011

58 pages, 8 figures

arxiv created 2019/12/10 · arxiv updated 2020/06/24

Abstract

Large classes of AdS_p supergravity backgrounds describing the IR dynamics of p-branes wrapped on a Riemann surface are determined by a solution to the Liouville equation. The regular solutions of this equation lead to the well-known wrapped brane supergravity solutions associated with the constant curvature metric on a compact Riemann surface. We show that some singular solutions of the Liouville equation have a physical interpretation as explicit point-like brane sources on the Riemann surface. We uncover the details of this picture by focusing on N=1 theories of class S arising from M5-branes on a punctured Riemann surface. We present explicit AdS₅ solutions dual to these SCFTs and check the holographic duality by showing the non-trivial agreement of 't Hooft anomalies.

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