A new 6d fixed point from holography

Abstract

We propose a stringy construction giving rise to a class of interacting and non-supersymmetric CFT's in six dimensions. Such theories may be obtained as an IR conformal fixed point of an RG flow ending up in a $(1,0)$ theory in the UV. We provide the due holographic evidence in the context of massive type IIA on ${\text{AdS}}_7\times M_3$, where $M_3$ is topologically an $S^3$. In particular, in this paper we present a 10d flow solution which may be interpreted as a non-BPS bound state of NS5, D6 and $\overline{\text{D6}}$ branes. Moreover, by adopting its 7d effective description, we are able to holographically compute the free energy and the operator spectrum in the novel IR conformal fixed point.

33 pages + appendices, 6 figures and 5 tables; v2: discussions on the SUSY breaking flow (sec. 2.3) and perturbative/non-perturbative stability (sec. 5) improved, figure added, references added, minor corrections, typos corrected, published version

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