Published January 2008
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Journal article
A holographic computation of the central charges of d = 4, N = 2 SCFTs
Creators
- 1. Department of Particle Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100 (Israel)
- 2. School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, 08540 (United States)
Description
We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to compute the central charges of the d = 4, N = 2 superconformal field theories arising from N D3-branes at singularities in F-theory. These include the conformal theories with En global symmetries. We compute the central charges a and c related to the conformal anomaly, and also the central charges k associated to the global symmetry in these theories. All of these are related to the coefficients of Chern-Simons terms in the dual string theory on AdS5. Our computation is exact for all values of N, enabling several tests of the dualities recently proposed by Argyres and Seiberg for the E6 and E7 theories with N = 1
Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Journal Volume
- 1
- Journal Issue
- 2008
- Journal Page Range
- p. 037
- ISSN
- 1126-6708
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Italy
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 39048605
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CALCULATION METHODS; CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; D-BRANES; DUALITY; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; HOLOGRAPHY; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SINGULARITY; STRING MODELS; STRING THEORY; SYMMETRY
- Descriptors DEC
- BRANES; COMPOSITE MODELS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; M-THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUARK MODEL