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Two-dimensional SCFTs from D3-branes

arXiv:1511.09462 · doi:10.1007/JHEP07(2016)020

Abstract

We find a large class of two-dimensional SCFTs obtained by compactifying four-dimensional quiver gauge theories on a Riemann surface. We study these theories using anomalies and -extremization. The gravitational duals to these fixed points are new AdS solutions of IIB supergravity which we exhibit explicitly. Along the way we uncover a universal relation between the conformal anomaly coefficients of four-dimensional and two-dimensional SCFTs connected by an RG flow across dimensions. We also observe an interesting novel phenomenon in which the superconformal R-symmetry mixes with baryonic symmetries along the RG flow.

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