Novel Local CFT and Exact Results on Perturbations of N=4 Super Yang Mills from AdS Dynamics

TL;DR

This paper constructs new non-supersymmetric conformal field theories via relevant deformations of N=4 super Yang Mills and explores their dual supergravity solutions, revealing insights into IR fixed points and marginal deformations.

Contribution

It introduces local, non-supersymmetric CFTs from deformations of N=4 SYM and constructs supergravity flows connecting UV and IR fixed points.

Findings

New non-supersymmetric IR fixed points identified.

Interpolating supergravity solutions constructed.

Marginal deformations lead to N=1 superconformal fixed points.

Abstract

We find new, local, non-supersymmetric conformal field theories obtained by relevant deformations of the N=4 super Yang Mills theory in the large $N$ limit. We contruct interpolating supergravity solutions that naturally represent the flow from the N=4 super Yang Mills UV theory to these non-supersymmetric IR fixed points. We also study the linearization around the N=4 superconformal point of N=1 supersymmetric, marginal deformations. We show that they give rise to N=1 superconformal fixed points, as expected from field-theoretical arguments.