Wrapped branes and punctured horizons
Abstract
Large classes of AdSp 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.
- Publication:
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Journal of High Energy Physics
- Pub Date:
- June 2020
- DOI:
- 10.1007/JHEP06(2020)011
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1912.04779
- Bibcode:
- 2020JHEP...06..011B
- Keywords:
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- AdS-CFT Correspondence;
- Supersymmetric Gauge Theory;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 58 pages, 8 figures