The Eleven-Dimensional Uplift of Four-Dimensional Supersymmetric RG Flow

TL;DR

This paper presents an exact eleven-dimensional supergravity solution that lifts a four-dimensional supersymmetric RG flow, maintaining consistency along the flow and revealing geometric and symmetry properties of the internal space.

Contribution

It provides the first explicit eleven-dimensional uplift of a 4D supersymmetric RG flow, demonstrating consistency of the Einstein-Maxwell equations throughout the flow.

Findings

Exact 11D supergravity solution for the RG flow

Consistency of equations along the entire flow

Preservation of U(1)_R symmetry in the solution

Abstract

The squashed and stretched 7-dimensional internal metric preserving U(1) x U(1) x U(1)_R symmetry possesses an Einstein-Kahler 2-fold which is a base manifold of 5-dimensional Sasaki-Einstein L^{p, q, r} space. The r(transverse to the domain wall)-dependence of the two 4-dimensional supergravity fields, that play the role of geometric parameters for squashing and stretching, makes the 11-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell equations consistent not only at the two critical points but also along the whole N=2 supersymmetric RG flow connecting them. The Ricci tensor of the solution has common feature with the previous three 11-dimensional solutions. The 4-forms preserve only U(1)_R symmetry for other generic parameters of the metric. We find an exact solution to the 11-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell equations corresponding to the lift of the 4-dimensional supersymmetric RG flow.