3 Jun 2024 | Dimitrios Chatzis, Ali Fatemiabhari, Carlos Nunez and Peter Weck
This paper presents a holographic method to implement a supersymmetry-preserving deformation of 4d SCFTs. The method involves embedding a soliton solution of minimal 5d gauged supergravity into ten- and eleven-dimensional string theory backgrounds of the form AdS$_5 \times M$. This embedding systematically constructs new solutions, each of which holographically realizes a twisted compactification of the SCFT$_4$ dual to the original background. In the infrared (IR), these solutions flow to gapped three-dimensional systems. Using various holographic observables, the authors provide evidence for this interpretation and for confinement in the deformed SQFTs. The method applies to any holographic solutions that admit a consistent truncation to minimal 5d gauged supergravity and can likely be generalized to solutions with other AdS$_d$ factors.This paper presents a holographic method to implement a supersymmetry-preserving deformation of 4d SCFTs. The method involves embedding a soliton solution of minimal 5d gauged supergravity into ten- and eleven-dimensional string theory backgrounds of the form AdS$_5 \times M$. This embedding systematically constructs new solutions, each of which holographically realizes a twisted compactification of the SCFT$_4$ dual to the original background. In the infrared (IR), these solutions flow to gapped three-dimensional systems. Using various holographic observables, the authors provide evidence for this interpretation and for confinement in the deformed SQFTs. The method applies to any holographic solutions that admit a consistent truncation to minimal 5d gauged supergravity and can likely be generalized to solutions with other AdS$_d$ factors.