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Four-dimensional SCFTs from M5-branes

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We engineer a large new set of four-dimensional \(\mathcal{N} = 1\) superconformal field theories by wrapping M5-branes on complex curves. We present new supersymmetric AdS 5 M-theory backgrounds which describe these fixed points at large N, and then directly construct the dual four-dimensional CFTs for a certain subset of these solutions. Additionally, we provide a direct check of the central charges of these theories by using the M5-brane anomaly polynomial. This is a companion paper which elaborates upon results reported in [1].

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  1. Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, U.S.A.

    Ibrahima Bah

  2. Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-3636, U.S.A.

    Christopher Beem & Nikolay Bobev

  3. Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, U.S.A.

    Brian Wecht

  4. Centre for Research in String Theory, Queen Mary, University of London, London, E1 4NS, U.K.

    Brian Wecht

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Bah, I., Beem, C., Bobev, N. et al. Four-dimensional SCFTs from M5-branes. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 5 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2012)005

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