TY - JOUR
T1 - 3d defects in 5d: RG flows and defect F-maximization
AU - Santilli, Leonardo
AU - Uhlemann, Christoph F.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Julius Grimminger, Hee-Cheol Kim, Mauricio Romo and Lorenzo Ruggeri for discussion. CFU was supported, in part, by the US Department of Energy under Grant No. DE-SC0007859 and by the Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics. LS was supported by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia project PTDC/MAT-PUR/30234/2017 during the early stages of the work. This work was initiated at the Aspen Center for Physics, which is supported by National Science Foundation grant PHY-1607611.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s).
PY - 2023/6
Y1 - 2023/6
N2 - We use a combination of AdS/CFT and supersymmetric localization to study codimension-2 defects in 5d SCFTs and their gauge theory deformations. The 5d SCFTs are engineered by (p, q) 5-brane webs, with defects realized by D3-branes ending on the 5-brane webs. We obtain the defect free energies and find that gauge theory descriptions of the combined 5d/3d systems can be connected to the UV defect SCFTs through a form of F-maximization which extremizes over different gauge theory defects. This leads to a match between the defect free energies obtained from supersymmetric localization in the gauge theories on the one hand and string theory results on the other. We extend this match to defect RG flows.
AB - We use a combination of AdS/CFT and supersymmetric localization to study codimension-2 defects in 5d SCFTs and their gauge theory deformations. The 5d SCFTs are engineered by (p, q) 5-brane webs, with defects realized by D3-branes ending on the 5-brane webs. We obtain the defect free energies and find that gauge theory descriptions of the combined 5d/3d systems can be connected to the UV defect SCFTs through a form of F-maximization which extremizes over different gauge theory defects. This leads to a match between the defect free energies obtained from supersymmetric localization in the gauge theories on the one hand and string theory results on the other. We extend this match to defect RG flows.
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U2 - 10.1007/JHEP06(2023)136
DO - 10.1007/JHEP06(2023)136
M3 - Article
VL - 2023
JO - The Journal of high energy physics
JF - The Journal of high energy physics
SN - 1126-6708
IS - 6
M1 - 136
ER -