Gravitational free energy in topological AdS/CFT

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2018)100MaRDI QIDQ1797337zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Pietro Benetti Genolini, Paul Richmond, James Sparks

Publication date 19 October 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08625

zbMATH Keywords

AdS-CFT correspondenceextended supersymmetrysupersymmetric gauge theorytopological field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: We define and study a holographic dual to the topological twist of $mathcalN=4$ gauge theories on Riemannian three-manifolds. The gravity duals are solutions to four-dimensional $mathcalN=4$ gauged supergravity, where the three-manifold arises as a conformal boundary. Following our previous work, we show that the renormalized gravitational free energy of such solutions is independent of the boundary three-metric, as required for a topological theory. We then go further, analyzing the geometry of supersymmetric bulk solutions. Remarkably, we are able to show that the gravitational free energy of any smooth four-manifold filling of any three-manifold is always zero. Aided by this analysis, we prove a similar result for topological AdS${}_5$/CFT${}_4$. We comment on the implications of these results for the large $N$ limits of topologically twisted gauge theories in three and four dimensions, including the ABJM theory and $mathcalN=4$ $SU(N)$ super-Yang-Mills, respectively.

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