Non-Supersymmetric CS-Matter Theories with Known AdS Duals
We consider three-dimensional conformal field theories living on a stack of N anti-M2 branes at the tip of eight-dimensional supersymmetric cones. The corresponding supergravity solution is obtained by changing sign to the four-form in the Freund...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2011-01-01
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| Series: | Advances in High Energy Physics |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/393645 |
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| Summary: | We consider three-dimensional conformal field theories living on a stack of
N
anti-M2 branes at the tip of eight-dimensional supersymmetric cones. The corresponding supergravity solution is obtained by changing sign to the four-form in the Freund-Rubin solution representing M2 branes (“skew-whiffing” transformation) and it is known to be stable. The existence of these non-supersymmetric, stable field theories, at least in the large
N
limit, is a peculiarity of the
AdS
4
/
CFT
3
correspondence with respect to the usual
AdS
5
/
CFT
4
, and it is worthwhile to study it. We analyze in detail the KK spectrum of the skew-whiffed solution associated with
S
7
/
ℤ
k
and we speculate on the natural field content for a candidate non-supersymmetric dual field theory. |
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| ISSN: | 1687-7357 1687-7365 |