2021/12/31 by Pietro Ferrero, Jerome P. Gauntlett, James Sparks · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep01(2022)102
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arxiv created 2022/01/17 · arxiv updated 2022/02/09
In the context of holography, we analyse aspects of supersymmetric geometries based on two-dimensional orbifolds known as spindles. By analysing spinc spinors on a spindle with an azimuthal rotation symmetry we show that under rather general conditions there are just two possibilities, called the `twist' and the `anti-twist', which are determined by the quantized magnetic flux through the spindle. A special case of the twist is the standard topological twist which is associated with constant and chiral spinors. We construct solutions of D=5 and D=4 STU gauged supergravity theories that are dual to D3-branes and M2-branes wrapping spindles, respectively, which realize both the anti-twist, as seen before, but also the twist. For the wrapped D3-brane solutions we reproduce the central charge of the gravity solution from the dual field theory by analysing the anomaly polynomial of N=4 SYM theory. We also discuss M5-branes wrapped on spindles both from a gravity and a field theory point of view.