New supersymmetric $AdS_5$ black strings from 5D $N=4$ gauged supergravity

TL;DR

This paper constructs new supersymmetric $AdS_5$ black string solutions in 5D $N=4$ gauged supergravity, revealing their near horizon geometries, supersymmetric vacua, and holographic RG flows between 4D and 2D SCFTs.

Contribution

It introduces a large class of novel supersymmetric $AdS_5$ black strings with specific near horizon geometries and analyzes their holographic RG flows and vacua structure.

Findings

Multiple new supersymmetric $AdS_5$ black string solutions found.

Near horizon geometries of the form $AdS_3\times \Sigma^2$ identified.

Holographic RG flows from 4D to 2D SCFTs characterized.

Abstract

We find a large class of new supersymmetric $AdS_5$ black strings from five-dimensional $N=4$ gauged supergravity coupled to five vector multiplets with $SO(2)_D\times SO(3)\times SO(3)$ gauge group. These solutions have near horizon geometries of the form $AdS_3\times \Sigma^2$ for $\Sigma^2$ being a two-sphere ($S^2$) or a hyperbolic space ($H^2$). There are four supersymmetric $AdS_5$ vacua with $N=4$ and $N=2$ supersymmetries. By performing topological twists along $\Sigma^2$ with $SO(2)\times SO(2)_{\textrm{diag}}$ and $SO(2)_{\textrm{diag}}$ gauge fields, we find a number of $AdS_3\times \Sigma^2$ fixed points describing near horizon geometries of black strings in asymptotically $AdS_5$ spaces. Most of the solutions take the form of $AdS_3\times H^2$ with only one being $AdS_3\times S^2$ preserving $SO(2)_{\textrm{diag}}$ symmetry. We also give the corresponding black string solutions interpolating between asymptotically locally $AdS_5$ vacua and the near horizon $AdS_3\times \Sigma^2$ geometries. There are a number of solutions flowing from one, two or three $AdS_5$ vacua to an $AdS_3\times \Sigma^2$ fixed point. These solutions can also be considered as holographic RG flows across dimensions from $N=2$ and $N=1$ SCFTs in four dimensions to two-dimensional SCFTs with $N=(2,0)$ or $N=(0,2)$ supersymmetry.