Non-Supersymmetric CS-Matter Theories with Known AdS Duals

作者：Forcella Davide; Zaffaroni Alberto^*

来源：Advances in High Energy Physics, 2011, 393645.

DOI：10.1155/2011/393645

We consider three-dimensional conformal field theories living on a stack of N anti-M2 branes at the tip of eight-dimensional supersymmetric cones. The corresponding supergravity solution is obtained by changing sign to the four-form in the Freund-Rubin solution representing M2 branes ("skew-whiffing" transformation) and it is known to be stable. The existence of these non-supersymmetric, stable field theories, at least in the large N limit, is a peculiarity of the AdS(4)/CFT3 correspondence with respect to the usual AdS(5)/CFT4, and it is worthwhile to study it. We analyze in detail the KK spectrum of the skew-whiffed solution associated with S-7/Z(k) and we speculate on the natural field content for a candidate non-supersymmetric dual field theory.

• 出版日期2011