Marginal deformations and RG flows for type IIB S-folds
Igal Arav (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, Amsterdam, 1090 GL, The Netherlands); Jerome Gauntlett (Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AZ, U.K.); Matthew Roberts (Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AZ, U.K.); Christopher Rosen (Departament de Física Quántica i Astrofísica and Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (ICC), Universitat de Barcelona, Martí Franquès 1, Barcelona, ES-08028, Spain)
We construct a continuous one parameter family of AdS4 × S 1 × S 5 S-fold solutions of type IIB string theory which have nontrivial SL(2, ℤ) monodromy in the S 1 direction. The solutions span a subset of a conformal manifold that contains the known $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 S-fold SCFT in d = 3, and generically preserve $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 2 supersymmetry. We also construct RG flows across dimensions, from AdS5 × S 5, dual to $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4, d = 4 SYM compactified with a twisted spatial circle, to various AdS4 ×S 1 ×S 5 S-fold solutions, dual to d = 3 SCFTs. We construct additional flows between the AdS5 dual of the Leigh-Strassler SCFT and an $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 2 S-fold as well as RG flows between various S-folds.