Holographic RG flows and Janus interfaces from ISO(3)xU(1) F(4) gauged supergravity

TL;DR

This paper explores six-dimensional $F(4)$ gauged supergravity with a non-semisimple gauge group, analyzing its vacua, RG flows, and Janus solutions to understand holographic duals of five-dimensional SCFTs.

Contribution

It provides the first holographic analysis of matter-coupled $F(4)$ gauged supergravity with non-semisimple gauge groups, including vacua, RG flows, and Janus interfaces.

Findings

Identified two $AdS_6$ vacua, one supersymmetric and stable, the other non-supersymmetric.

Constructed holographic RG flows from the supersymmetric vacuum to non-conformal phases.

Presented supersymmetric Janus solutions describing conformal interfaces in the dual SCFT.

Abstract

We study six-dimensional $F(4)$ gauged supergravity coupled to four vector multiplets with a non-semisimple $ISO(3)\times U(1)$ gauge group. This gauged supergravity arises from a consistent truncation of type IIB string theory on $S^2\times \Sigma$ with $\Sigma$ being a Riemann surface. We find that the gauged supergravity admits two $SO(3)$ symmetric $AdS_6$ vacua, one with $N=(1,1)$ supersymmetry and the other one non-supersymmetric. We compute all scalar masses at these critical points and find that only the supersymmetric $AdS_6$ vacuum is stable. By truncating to $SO(3)\times U(1)$ and $SO(2)\times U(1)$ invariant sectors, we study holographic RG flow solutions from this critical point to a number of non-conformal phases of the dual $N=2$ SCFT in five dimensions. Finally, we give some examples of supersymmetric Janus solutions describing conformal interfaces within the five-dimensional SCFT. All of these solutions provide first holographic results from matter-coupled $F(4)$ gauged supergravity with non-semisimple gauge groups.