3d defects in 5d: RG flows and defect F-maximization

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DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2023)136arXiv2305.01004OpenAlexW4381800532MaRDI QIDQ6134717FDOQ6134717


Authors: Leonardo Santilli, Christoph F. Uhlemann Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 25 July 2023

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

Abstract: 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.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01004







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