Wrapped branes with fluxes in 8d gauged supergravity

TL;DR

This paper constructs supergravity solutions describing wrapped D-branes with fluxes using 8d gauged supergravity, revealing dual field theories in lower dimensions and extending known configurations.

Contribution

It provides a systematic method to generate fluxed wrapped brane solutions from fluxless cases within 8d gauged supergravity, including new configurations and dual field theories.

Findings

New supergravity solutions for wrapped D-branes with fluxes.

Explicit dual 2+1 dimensional N=1 and N=2 field theories.

Method to derive fluxed solutions from fluxless backgrounds.

Abstract

We study the gravity dual of several wrapped D-brane configurations in presence of 4-form RR fluxes partially piercing the unwrapped directions. We present a systematic approach to obtain these solutions from those without fluxes. We use D=8 gauged supergravity as a starting point to build up these solutions. The configurations include (smeared) M2-branes at the tip of a G_2 cone on S^3 x S^3, D2-D6 branes with the latter wrapping a special Lagrangian 3-cycle of the complex deformed conifold and an holomorphic sphere in its cotangent bundle T^*S^2, D3-branes at the tip of the generalized resolved conifold, and others obtained by means of T duality and KK reduction. We elaborate on the corresponding N=1 and N=2 field theories in 2+1 dimensions.