Oct 6 – 10, 2025
EIMI
Europe/Moscow timezone

Holographic RG flows in a 3D gauged supergravity

Oct 6, 2025, 5:20 PM
20m
Room 2, 2nd floor

Room 2, 2nd floor

Session talk Section A: Mathematical methods in QFT Section A: Mathematical methods in QFT

Speaker

Lev Astrakhantsev (BLTP JINR, MIPT)

Description

We focus on the study of RG flows of conformal field theories that are holographically dual to Poincare domain wall solutions in $D=3$, $N=(2,0)$ gauged supergravity coupled to a sigma model with target spaces $S^2$ or $\mathbb{H}^2$. This theory is truncated to a subsector where the vector field and phase of the scalar field vanish and we consider dynamics of the remaining real scalar field. The RG flows, which are mostly non-superysymmetric, are analyzed by treating the supergravity field equations as a dynamical system for the scalar field and its derivative with respect to the scale factor. Phase diagrams are constructed for different values of the parameter $a^2$, which is related to the curvature of the scalar manifold. Obtained RG flows are interpreted using the holographic dictionary. For the case of $S^2$ target space we also provide and interpretate thermal flows as a special gravitational solutions. During the talk we consider exotic RG flows and give some hints to understand their nature.

Author

Lev Astrakhantsev (BLTP JINR, MIPT)

Presentation materials