New advancements in AdS/CFT in lower dimensions

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent progress in lower-dimensional AdS/CFT, presenting new solutions in M-theory, IIA, and IIB, and matching their dual field theories' central charges with holographic calculations.

Contribution

It introduces new classes of AdS solutions in M-theory, IIA, and IIB, and provides explicit dual quiver CFTs with matching central charges, advancing the understanding of lower-dimensional holography.

Findings

New AdS$_3$ solutions in M-theory describing M-strings.

AdS$_2$ solutions in IIA interpreted as baryon vertices.

AdS$_2$ solutions in IIB dual to quantum mechanics and baryon vertices.

Abstract

We review recent developments in the study of the AdS/CFT correspondence in lower dimensions. We start summarising the classification of AdS$_3\times$S$^2$ solutions in massive Type IIA supergravity with (0,4) supersymmetries, and the construction of their 2d dual quiver CFTs. These theories are the seed for further developments, that we review next. First, we construct a new class of AdS$_3$ solutions in M-theory that describe M-strings in M5-brane intersections. Second, we generate a new class of AdS$_2\times$S$^3$ solutions in massive IIA with 4 supercharges that we interpret as describing backreacted baryon vertices within the 5d $\mathcal{N}=1$ QFT living in D4-D8 branes. Third, we construct two classes of AdS$_2$ solutions in Type IIB. The first are dual to discrete light-cone quantised quantum mechanics living in null cylinders. The second class is interpreted as dual to backreacted baryon vertices within 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ QFT living in D3-D7 branes. Explicit dual quiver field theories are given for all classes of solutions. These are used to compute the central charges of the CFTs, that are shown to agree with the holographic expressions.