Branes Wrapped on Spindles
Jerome Gauntlett (Imperial College)
Abstract: We discuss a new landscape of holographic SCFTs associated with branes wrapped on a spindle. A spindle is a specific two dimensional orbifold: a two sphere with quantised conical deficits at each of the poles. We construct solutions describing the wrapped branes in gauged supergravity and then uplift them to D=10 and D=11 supergravity. Remarkably, supersymmetry is not realised by the standard topological twist and, furthermore, in some case the higher dimensional solutions are free from all orbifold singularities. For the case of D3 and M5 branes wrapping spindles we calculate the central charge of the CFT that arises both from the gravity solution and from a field theory computation and find exact agreement. For the case of M2 branes there is an interesting connection with D=4 accelerating black holes.
HEP - theorymathematical physics
Audience: researchers in the topic
Series comments: Mailing List: to receive information about logging on to the talks: Send email to sympa@lists.johnshopkins.edu With subject: sub qft-geometry-seminars Leave body blank.
| Organizers: | Ibou Bah, Jonathan Heckman, Ken Intriligator, Sara Pasquetti, Shlomo Razamat, Sakura Schafer-Nameki*, Alessandro Tomasiello |
| *contact for this listing |