RG flows in 6D N=(1,0) SCFT from SO(4) half-maximal 7D gauged supergravity

Abstract

We study $N=2$ seven-dimensional gauged supergravity coupled to three vector multiplets with $SO(4)$ gauge group. The resulting gauged supergravity contains 10 scalars consisting of the dilaton and 9 vector multiplet scalars parametrized by $SO(3,3)/SO(3)\times SO(3)$ coset manifold. The maximally supersymmetric $Ad{S}_7$ vacuum with unbroken $SO(4)$ symmetry is identified with a $(1,0)$ SCFT in six dimensions. We find one new supersymmetric $Ad{S}_7$ critical point preserving $SO(3{)}_{\text{diag}}\subset SO(3)\times SO(3)\sim SO(4)$ and study a holographic RG flow interpolating between the $SO(4)$ and the new $SO(3)$ supersymmetric critical points. The RG flow is driven by a vacuum expectation value of a dimension-four operator and describes a deformation of the UV $(1,0)$ SCFT to another supersymmetric fixed point in the IR. In addition, a number of non-supersymmetric critical points are identified, and some of them are stable with all scalar masses above the BF bound. RG flows to non-conformal $N=(1,0)$ Super Yang-Mills with $SO(2)\times SO(2)$ and $SO(2)$ symmetries are also investigated. Some of these flows have physically acceptable IR singularities since the scalar potential is bounded above. These provide physical RG flows from $(1,0)$ SCFT to non-conformal field theories in six dimensions.

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