Semiclassics of three-dimensional SCFTs from holography

Abstract

We use holography to compute the large-$N$ effective field theory along the moduli space of vacua of an infinite class of three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs admitting a dual M-theory description. We focus in particular on toric models and show how the spectrum of large $R$-charge SCFT chiral scalar operators corresponds to a set of explicit semiclassical solutions of our effective field theory, which describe bound states of backreacting giant gravitons and baryonic-like M5-branes. Our semiclassical description allows for a direct computation of the scaling dimensions of these operators and provides a starting point for a semiclassical investigation of the SCFT data in the large $R$-charge sector. We consider the models corresponding to the $Y^{12}({\mathbb{P}}^2)$ and $Q^{111}$ Sasaki-Einstein spaces as explicit examples.

arXiv comment77 pages + appendices, 7 figures

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