Journal of High Energy Physics (May 2020)

Holographic interfaces in N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 SYM: Janus and J-folds

  • Nikolay Bobev,
  • Friðrik Freyr Gautason,
  • Krzysztof Pilch,
  • Minwoo Suh,
  • Jesse van Muiden

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2020)134
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2020, no. 5
pp. 1 – 40

Abstract

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Abstract We find the holographic dual to the three classes of superconformal Janus interfaces in N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 SYM that preserve three-dimensional N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4, N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 2, and N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 1 supersymmetry. The solutions are constructed in five-dimensional SO(6) maximal gauged supergravity and are then uplifted to type IIB supergravity. Corresponding to each of the three classes of Janus solutions, there are also AdS4 × S 1 × S 5 J-fold backgrounds. These J-folds have a non-trivial SL(2, ℤ) monodromy for the axio-dilaton on the S 1 and are dual to three-dimensional superconformal field theories.

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