Supersymmetric solitons and a degeneracy of solutions in AdS/CFT

Anabalón, Andrés; Ross, Simon F.

Abstract

We study Lorentzian supersymmetric configurations in D = 4 and D = 5 gauged N = 2 supergravity. We show that there are smooth 1/2 BPS solutions which are asymptotically AdS4 and AdS5 with a planar boundary, a compact spacelike direction and with a Wilson line on that circle. There are solitons where the S1 shrinks smoothly to zero in the interior, with a magnetic flux through the circle determined by the Wilson line, which are AdS analogues of the Melvin fluxtube. There is also a solution with a constant gauge field, which is pure AdS. Both solutions preserve half of the supersymmetries at a special value of the Wilson line. There is a phase transition between these two saddle-points as a function of the Wilson line precisely at the supersymmetric point. Thus, the supersymmetric solutions are degenerate, at least at the supergravity level. We extend this discussion to one of the Romans solutions in four dimensions when the Euclidean boundary is S1 × Σg where Σg is a Riemann surface with genus g > 0. We speculate that the supersymmetric state of the CFT on the boundary is dual to a superposition of the two degenerate geometries.

Citation

Anabalón, A., & Ross, S. F. (2021). Supersymmetric solitons and a degeneracy of solutions in AdS/CFT. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021(7), https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07%282021%29015

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jul 1, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Jul 5, 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Deposit Date: Sep 6, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 21, 2021
• Journal: Journal of High Energy Physics
• Print ISSN: 1126-6708
• Electronic ISSN: 1029-8479
• Publisher: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2021
• Issue: 7
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07%282021%29015
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1241510
• Related Public URLs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14572