TY - JOUR
T1 - Holographic duals for five-dimensional superconformal quantum field theories
AU - D'Hoker, Eric
AU - Gutperle, Michael
AU - Uhlemann, Christoph F.
N1 - 5 pages, Dedicated to John H. Schwarz on the occasion of his seventy fifth birthday, v2: minor changes, version to appear in PRL, v3: integration constant c_6 fixed
PY - 2016/11/28
Y1 - 2016/11/28
N2 - We construct global solutions to Type IIB supergravity with 16 residual supersymmetries whose space-time is $AdS_6 \times S^2$ warped over a Riemann surface. Families of solutions are labeled by an arbitrary number $L\geq 3$ of asymptotic regions, in each of which the supergravity fields match those of a $(p,q)$ five-brane, and may therefore be viewed as near-horizon limits of fully localized intersections of five-branes in Type IIB string theory. These solutions provide compelling candidates for holographic duals to a large class of five-dimensional superconformal quantum field theories which arise as non-trivial UV fixed points of perturbatively non-renormalizable Yang-Mills theories, thereby making them more directly accessible to quantitative analysis.
AB - We construct global solutions to Type IIB supergravity with 16 residual supersymmetries whose space-time is $AdS_6 \times S^2$ warped over a Riemann surface. Families of solutions are labeled by an arbitrary number $L\geq 3$ of asymptotic regions, in each of which the supergravity fields match those of a $(p,q)$ five-brane, and may therefore be viewed as near-horizon limits of fully localized intersections of five-branes in Type IIB string theory. These solutions provide compelling candidates for holographic duals to a large class of five-dimensional superconformal quantum field theories which arise as non-trivial UV fixed points of perturbatively non-renormalizable Yang-Mills theories, thereby making them more directly accessible to quantitative analysis.
KW - hep-th
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.101601
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.101601
M3 - Article
VL - 118
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
SN - 0031-9007
IS - 10
ER -