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We study type IIB supergravity solutions that are dual to two-dimensional superconformal defects in d = 4 SCFTs which preserve \( \mathcal{N} \) = (0, 2) supersymmetry. We consider solutions dual to defects in \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4 SYM theory that have non-trivial monodromy for U(1)3 ⊂ SO(6) global symmetry and we also allow for the possibility of conical singularities. In addition, we consider the addition of fermionic and bosonic mass terms that have non trivial dependence on the spatial directions transverse to the defect, while preserving the superconformal symmetry of the defect. We compute various physical quantities including the central charges of the defect expressed as a function of the monodromy, the on-shell action as well as associated supersymmetric Rényi entropies. Analogous computations are carried out for superconformal defects in the \( \mathcal{N} \) = 1, d = 4 Leigh-Strassler SCFT. We also show that the defects of the two SCFTs are connected by a line of bulk marginal mass deformations and argue that they are also related by bulk RG flow.
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We thank Lorenzo Bianchi, Jaume Gomis, Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Ioannis Papadimitriou, Brandon Robinson and Yifan Wang for helpful discussions. This work was supported in part by FWO project G003523N, STFC grants ST/T000791/1, ST/X000575/1 the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. 2023R1A2C1006975), an appointment to the JRG Program at the APCTP through the Science and Technology Promotion Fund and Lottery Fund of the Korean Government, the European MSCA grant HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01-01 and by the H.F.R.I call “Basic research Financing (Horizontal support of all Sciences)” under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0” funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU (H.F.R.I. Project Number: 15384.). JPG is supported as a Visiting Fellow at the Perimeter Institute.
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Arav, I., Gauntlett, J.P., Jiao, Y. et al. Superconformal monodromy defects in \( \mathcal{N} \)=4 SYM and LS theory. J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 177 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2024)177
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