Surface defects in holographic 5d SCFTs
Michael Gutperle, Christoph F. Uhlemann
Abstract
A bstract We use holography to study codimension-2 surface defects in 5d SCFTs engineered by ( p , q ) 5-brane webs. The three-dimensional defects are realized by D3-branes ending on the brane web. We identify the holographic representation of the defects in Type IIB AdS 6 solutions as probe D3-branes, and study conformal and non-conformal defects which, respectively, preserve one half and one quarter of the supersymmetry. For a sample of 5d SCFTs, including the T N theories, we provide explicit solutions for conformal and non-conformal defects. For the conformal defects we obtain their contribution to the free energy on S 5 .
Topics & Concepts
PhysicsConformal mapHolographySurface (topology)Topological defectBraneRepresentation (politics)OpticsTheoretical physicsConformal field theoryDuality (order theory)Energy (signal processing)Energy conditionSample (material)Holographic interferometryCondensed matter physicsType (biology)Conformal symmetryDislocationHigh energyQuantum electrodynamicsBlack Holes and Theoretical PhysicsAlgebraic structures and combinatorial modelsAlgebraic Geometry and Number Theory