Gravitational and Yang-Mills instantons in holographic RG flows

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Abstract: We study various holographic RG flow solutions involving warped asymptotically locally Euclidean (ALE) spaces of AN−1 type. A two-dimensional RG flow from a UV (2,0) CFT to a (4,0) CFT in the IR is found in the context of (1,0) six dimensional supergravity, interpolating between AdS3imesS3/mathbbZN and AdS3imesS3 geometries. We also find solutions involving non trivial gauge fields in the form of SU(2) Yang-Mills instantons on ALE spaces. Both flows are of vev type, driven by a vacuum expectation value of a marginal operator. RG flows in four dimensional field theories are studied in the type IIB and type I′ context. In type IIB theory, the flow interpolates between AdS5imesS5/mathbbZN and AdS5imesS5 geometries. The field theory interpretation is that of an N=2 SU(n)N quiver gauge theory flowing to N=4 SU(n) gauge theory. In type I′ theory the solution describes an RG flow from N=2 quiver gauge theory with a product gauge group to N=2 gauge theory in the IR, with gauge group USp(n). The corresponding geometries are AdS5imesS5/(mathbbZNimesmathbbZ2) and AdS5imesS5/mathbbZ2, respectively. We also explore more general RG flows, in which both the UV and IR CFTs are N=2 quiver gauge theories and the corresponding geometries are AdS5imesS5/(mathbbZNimesmathbbZ2) and AdS5imesS5/(mathbbZMimesmathbbZ2). Finally, we discuss the matching between the geometric and field theoretic pictures of the flows.












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