Holography for N=2* on S^4

by Nikolay Bobev (Leuven)

Tuesday 25 Nov 2014, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

I will discuss the gravitational dual of a mass deformation of N=4 SYM, called N=2* SYM, on S^4. Using holographic techniques one can calculate the universal contribution to the corresponding free energy in the planar limit and at large 't Hooft coupling. The result matches the expression recently computed using supersymmetric localization in the field theory. This agreement represents a non-trivial precision test of holography in a non-conformal setting. I will also briefly discuss the extension of these results to mass deformations of N=4 SYM with N=1 supersymmetry.

Slides CERN_talk.pdf