A holographic computation of the central charges of d = 4, N = 2 SCFTs
Ofer Aharony; Yuji Tachikawa
Журнал:
Journal of High Energy Physics
Дата:
2008-01-01
Аннотация:
We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to compute the central charges of the d = 4, N = 2 superconformal field theories arising from N D3-branes at singularities in F-theory. These include the conformal theories with E<sub>n</sub> global symmetries. We compute the central charges a and c related to the conformal anomaly, and also the central charges k associated to the global symmetry in these theories. All of these are related to the coefficients of Chern-Simons terms in the dual string theory on AdS<sub>5</sub>. Our computation is exact for all values of N, enabling several tests of the dualities recently proposed by Argyres and Seiberg for the E<sub>6</sub> and E<sub>7</sub> theories with N = 1.
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