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hep-th2021

From Binary Error Correcting Codes to a Relation Between Maximal D=4 and D=3 Supergravities

Thomas Fischbacher, Krzysztof Pilch

This short note provides (TensorFlow-based) numerical evidence for the embedability (in the limit of a scalar parameter going to infinity) of the scalar potential of dyonic N=8, D=…

hep-th2021

Separability in Consistent Truncations

Krzysztof Pilch, Robert Walker, Nicholas P. Warner

The separability of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation has a well-known connection to the existence of Killing vectors and rank-two Killing tensors. This paper combines this connection w…

hep-th2020★ 10 cited

New AdS Vacua in Dyonic ISO(7) Gauged Supergravity

Nikolay Bobev, Thomas Fischbacher, Fridrik Freyr Gautason +1

We identify 219 AdS solutions in four-dimensional dyonically gauged ISO(7) supergravity and present some of their properties. One of the new solutions preserves…

hep-th2020★ 47 cited

Holographic Interfaces in N=4 SYM: Janus and J-folds

Nikolay Bobev, Fridrik Freyr Gautason, Krzysztof Pilch +2

We find the holographic dual to the three classes of superconformal Janus interfaces in SYM that preserve three-dimensional , , and $\…

hep-th2020★ 34 cited

A Cornucopia of AdS Vacua

Nikolay Bobev, Thomas Fischbacher, Fridrik Freyr Gautason +1

We report on a systematic search for AdS vacua corresponding to critical points of the potential in the five-dimensional SO(6) gauged supergravity. By employing…

hep-th2020★ 25 cited

Brane-Jet Instabilities

Iosif Bena, Krzysztof Pilch, Nicholas P. Warner

With one exception, all known non-supersymmetric AdS and AdS vacua of gauged maximal supergravities that descend from string and M theory have been shown to have modes with…

hep-th2019★ 28 cited

A new N=1 AdS4 Vacuum of Maximal Supergravity

Nikolay Bobev, Thomas Fischbacher, Krzysztof Pilch

The recent comprehensive numerical study of critical points of the scalar potential of four-dimensional N=8, SO(8) gauged supergravity using Machine Learning software has led to a…

hep-th2019★ 39 cited

Janus and J-fold Solutions from Sasaki-Einstein Manifolds

Nikolay Bobev, Friðrik Freyr Gautason, Krzysztof Pilch +2

We show that for every Sasaki-Einstein manifold, , the AdS background of type IIB supergravity admits two universal deformations leading to supersymmetric AdS$_4…

hep-th2018★ 29 cited

Mass Deformations of the ABJM Theory: The Holographic Free Energy

Nikolay Bobev, Vincent S. Min, Krzysztof Pilch +1

We find a class of new supersymmetric Euclidean solutions in four-dimensional maximal gauged supergravity. The holographic dual description of these backgrounds is given by a mass-…

hep-th2018★ 51 cited

Mass-deformed ABJM and Black Holes in AdS

Nikolay Bobev, Vincent S. Min, Krzysztof Pilch

We find a class of new supersymmetric dyonic black holes in four-dimensional maximal gauged supergravity which are asymptotic to the invariant AdS$_4…

hep-th2016★ 54 cited

Boundary Terms and Three-Point Functions: An AdS/CFT Puzzle Resolved

Daniel Z. Freedman, Krzysztof Pilch, Silviu S. Pufu +1

superconformal field theories, such as the ABJM theory at Chern-Simons level or , contain 35 scalar operators with in the …

hep-th2015★ 27 cited

Supersymmetric Janus Solutions and Flows: From Gauged Supergravity to M Theory

Krzysztof Pilch, Alexander Tyukov, Nicholas P. Warner

We investigate a family of SU(3)U(1)U(1)-invariant holographic flows and Janus solutions obtained from gauged supergravity in four dimensions. We gi…

hep-th2015★ 20 cited

Flowing to Higher Dimensions: A New Strongly-Coupled Phase on M2 Branes

Krzysztof Pilch, Alexander Tyukov, Nicholas P. Warner

We describe a one-parameter family of new holographic RG flows that start from and go to , where is conformal to…

hep-th2014★ 22 cited

An SO(3)SO(3) invariant solution of supergravity

Hadi Godazgar, Mahdi Godazgar, Olaf Krueger +2

We construct a new SO(3)SO(3) invariant non-supersymmetric solution of the bosonic field equations of supergravity from the corresponding stationary point of maximal…

hep-th2014★ 42 cited

(0,2) SCFTs from the Leigh-Strassler Fixed Point

Nikolay Bobev, Krzysztof Pilch, Orestis Vasilakis

We show that there is a family of two-dimensional SCFTs associated with twisted compactifications of the four-dimensional Leigh-Strassler fixed point on a c…

hep-th2013★ 89 cited

Supersymmetric Janus Solutions in Four Dimensions

Nikolay Bobev, Krzysztof Pilch, Nicholas P. Warner

We use maximal gauged supergravity in four dimensions to construct the gravity dual of a class of supersymmetric conformal interfaces in the theory on the world-volume of multiple…

hep-th2013★ 6 cited

On perturbative instability of Pope-Warner solutions on Sasaki-Einstein manifolds

Krzysztof Pilch, Isaiah Yoo

Given a Sasaki-Einstein manifold, M_7, there is the N=2 supersymmetric AdS_4 x M_7 Freund-Rubin solution of eleven-dimensional supergravity and the corresponding non-supersymmetric…

hep-th2012★ 3 cited

On Supersymmetric Flux Solutions of M-theory

Nick Halmagyi, Krzysztof Pilch, Nicholas P. Warner

Motivated by the geometric structures of supersymmetric holographic RG-flows, we scan for N=2 AdS_4 solutions in M-theory. One particularly well understood holographic RG flow in M…

hep-th2011★ 75 cited

Consistent truncation of d = 11 supergravity on AdS_4 x S^7

Hermann Nicolai, Krzysztof Pilch

We study the system of equations derived twenty five years ago by B. de Wit and the first author [Nucl. Phys. B281 (1987) 211] as conditions for the consistent truncation of eleven…

hep-th2011★ 60 cited

Minimal Holographic Superconductors from Maximal Supergravity

Nikolay Bobev, Arnab Kundu, Krzysztof Pilch +1

We study a truncation of four-dimensional maximal gauged supergravity that provides a realization of the minimal model of a holographic superconductor. We find various flow solutio…

hep-th2010★ 44 cited

New Supersymmetric and Stable, Non-Supersymmetric Phases in Supergravity and Holographic Field Theory

Thomas Fischbacher, Krzysztof Pilch, Nicholas P. Warner

We establish analytically that the potential of N=8 supergravity in four dimensions has a new N=1 supersymmetric critical point with U(1) x U(1) symmetry. We work within a consiste…

hep-th2010★ 104 cited

Supergravity Instabilities of Non-Supersymmetric Quantum Critical Points

Nikolay Bobev, Nick Halmagyi, Krzysztof Pilch +1

Motivated by the recent use of certain consistent truncations of M-theory to study condensed matter physics using holographic techniques, we study the SU(3)-invariant sector of fou…

hep-th2010★ 32 cited

Supersymmetric Charged Clouds in AdS_5

Nikolay Bobev, Arnab Kundu, Krzysztof Pilch +1

We consider supersymmetric holographic flows that involve background gauge fields dual to chemical potentials in the boundary field theory. We use a consistent truncation of gauged…

hep-th2009★ 68 cited

Supersymmetric IIB Solutions with Schrödinger Symmetry

Nikolay Bobev, Arnab Kundu, Krzysztof Pilch

We find a class of non-relativistic supersymmetric solutions of IIB supergravity with non-trivial B-field that have dynamical exponent n=2 and are invariant under the Schrodinger g…