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Deforming field theories with $U(1)\times U(1)$ global symmetry and their gravity duals
High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 8 Feb 2005 · 58 references
Pith's verdict: The real contribution is the SL(2,R) solution-generating trick, not the deformed field theory, and it holds up; the field-theory identification is an acknowledged conjecture backed by three independent corner checks.
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The gravity dual of the marginal $U(1)��U(1)$-preserving $��$ deformation of $��=4$ super Yang-Mills is obtained by a single $SL(2,��)$ transformation acting on the complexified two-torus modulus, and the same move deforms the conifold, tor
The reading
What carries the argument
The load-bearing object is the complexified modulus $�� = B + i��g$ of the two-torus, together with the eight-dimensional $SL(2,��)$ symmetry of the torus reduction that acts on it. The paper identifies the field-theory deformation with the specific element $�� �� ��/(1+�á�)$, and separately identifies the open-string combination $(g+B)^{-1} �� 1/��$ of Seiberg-Witten, so that under the same transformation $1/�� �� 1/�� + ��$: the deformation is exactly the introduction of a noncommutativity parameter $��_{12} = ��$ in a star product, while the open-string metric is untouched. That star-product reading is what makes the deformation marginal at leading order in $N$ (planar diagrams are unchanged) and what lets the same recipe be applied to any background with two geometrically realized $U(1)$ isometries.
Extended reading notes
Core claim
The central claim is that the gravity dual of the $��$-deformed theory is obtained by the solution-generating transformation $�� �� ��_�� = ��/(1+�á�)$, where $�� = B_{12} + i��g$ is the complexified K��hler modulus of the two-torus on which the two global $U(1)$ symmetries act as shifts. The authors argue this is the only $SL(2,��)$ element with the property that $��_�� = �� + O(��^2)$ near $�� �� 0$, so wherever the original torus contracted the deformed ten-dimensional metric is the same as the original non-singular one. Applied to $AdS_5 �� S^5$, the transformation produces an explicit metric with $G^{-1} = 1 + ��^2(��_1^2��_2^2 + ��_2^2��_3^2 + ��_1^2��_3^2)$, a dilaton $e^{2��} = e^{2��_0}G$, a nonzero $B_{NS}$ on the torus and a modified $C_4$, valid in the regime $R�� �� 1$, $R �� 1$. The same prescription is then applied to the conifold, to general toric (Sasaki-Einstein) backgrounds, to the cascading Klebanov-Strassler solution, and, via a three-torus and an $SL(2,��)$ acting on $C_{123} + i��G$, to $AdS_4 �� S^7$ in eleven dimensions.
Load-bearing premise
Identifying the transformed geometry with the $��$-deformed theory assumes that the Seiberg-Witten star-product formula, derived for constant metric and $B$ field, can be applied pointwise where those fields vary over spacetime — a step the authors themselves label a conjecture rather than a derivation.
Editorial extensions
If this is right
- An explicit, non-singular ten-dimensional background for the $��$-deformed $��=4$ theory is written down, with the deformation parameter entering only through the function $G^{-1} = 1+��^2(��_1^2��_2^2+��_2^2��_3^2+��_1^2��_3^2)$ multiplying the torus directions.
- At rational $�� = m/n$ the deformed solution is $SL(2,��)$-equivalent to a $Z_n �� Z_n$ orbifold with discrete torsion of the original torus, giving a weakly coupled alternative description of the same physics.
- New Coulomb-branch branches appear at rational points: when $n(��,��)$ is a lattice vector, $n$ D3-branes can puff into a toroidal $(p,q)$ fivebrane, and the chiral ring gains single-trace operators with $J_1 = J_2 = J_3 \bmod n$.
- The same transformation yields deformed duals for the conifold superpotential $\mathrm{Tr}[e^{i�С�}A^+B^+A^-B^- - e^{-i�С�}A^-B^+A^+B^-]$, for $Y^{p,q}$ spaces, and for the cascading Klebanov-Strassler background, where the deformation survives into the infrared and deforms the three-sphere.
- The Zamolodchikov metric for the marginal deformations is read off from the $SL(3,��)/SO(3)$ coset, giving $\frac{N^2}{16��^2}\int [\partial��_s\partial\bar��_s/��_{2s}^2 + C|\partial�� - ��_s\partial��|^2/��_{2s}]$ with $C = ��N$ for $\mathcal{N}=4$ and $C = 7��N/16$ for the conifold.
Reading between the lines
- Because the map is a symmetry of the dimensionally reduced theory, essentially every quantity protected by that symmetry — the Zamolodchikov metric, the BPS spectrum, the pp-wave limit — is inherited rather than recomputed; this suggests the deformation is unusually rigid, with no new dynamics generated at leading order in $N$.
- The recipe only needs two commuting geometric isometries, so it should extend to non-compact shift symmetries and to plane-wave backgrounds, potentially producing a large family of exactly solvable string backgrounds beyond the compact torus cases treated here.
- The rational-$��$ orbifold equivalence offers a non-perturbative check that does not rely on the pointwise star-product conjecture: in the regime where both the orbifold and the field theory are weakly coupled, the D-brane and discrete-torsion spectra should match level by level.
- The stated validity condition $R�� �� 1$ means the supergravity solution degrades as the deformation grows, so the strong-deformation regime is only reachable through the dual orbifold or another description; this bounds how much of the $��$ plane the construction actually covers.
Original abstract
We find the gravity dual of a marginal deformation of ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang Mills, and discuss some of its properties. This deformation is intimately connected with an $SL(2,R)$ symmetry of the gravity theory. The $SL(2,R)$ transformation enables us to find the solutions in a simple way. These field theory deformations, sometimes called $\beta$ deformations, can be viewed as arising from a star product. Our method works for any theory that has a gravity dual with a $U(1)\times U(1)$ global symmetry which is realized geometrically. These include the field theories that live on D3 branes at the conifold or other toric singularities, as well as their cascading versions.
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We find the gravity dual of a marginal deformation of ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang Mills, and discuss some of its properties. This deformation is intimately connected with an $SL(2,R)$ symmetry of the gravity theory. The $SL(2,R)$ transformation enables us to find the solutions in a simple way. These field theory deformations, sometimes called $\beta$ deformations, can be viewed as arising from a star product. Our method works for any theory that has a gravity dual with a $U(1)\times U(1)$ global symmetry which is realized geometrically. These include the field theories that live on D3 branes at the conifold or other toric singularities, as well as their cascading versions.
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| s0 | We find the gravity dual of a marginal deformation of ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang Mills, and discuss some of its properties. | contribution 0.69 | 0.95 | 0.77 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | This deformation is intimately connected with an $SL(2,R)$ symmetry of the gravity theory. | result 0.58 | 0.55 | 0.12 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | The $SL(2,R)$ transformation enables us to find the solutions in a simple way. | method 0.98 | 0.69 | 0.07 | asserted 1.00 |
| s3 | These field theory deformations, sometimes called $\beta$ deformations, can be viewed as arising from a star product. | interpretation 0.63 | 0.15 | 0.07 | hedged possibility 0.61 |
| s4 | Our method works for any theory that has a gravity dual with a $U(1)\times U(1)$ global symmetry which is realized geometrically. | contribution 0.58 | 0.71 | 0.18 | asserted 0.99 |
| s5 | These include the field theories that live on D3 branes at the conifold or other toric singularities, as well as their cascading versions. | contribution 0.33 | 0.21 | 0.05 | asserted 0.99 |
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This procedure is guaranteed to map solutions to solutions [ref] but one ought to be careful in the choice of U(1)s if one is to preserve supersymmetry or at least a fraction of the original one.
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Checked that its expression for the three-form fluxes, using its frame for S^5 and taking a real γ, reproduces those in this paper's first-order β-deformed solution.
Exactly marginal deformations from exceptional generalised geometry (2016) · 1.00 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting
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How the literature uses it
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The method used in [ref] to generate their solutions was to act with an element of the symmetry group of supergravity $O(6,6)$ that does not belong to the stabilizer (isomorphic to $O(6)×O(6)$) of the initial solution.
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The solution is purely NS (we call it LM–NS solution from now on) and is very similar in form to another solution in [ref] ; this one has RR fields too, and we will call it simply LM solution.
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One can check that using the frame for $Y^p,q$ given in [ref] and taking ([ref]), our expression ([ref]) reproduces the three-form fluxes that appear in the first-order $β$-deformed solution [ref] .
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Hence it is regular as well, as discussed from the metric point of view in [ref] .
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The gravitational dual of the $β$-deformed $=4$ super Yang-Mills theory was derived by Lunin and Maldacena in [ref] in the $=1$ supersymmetry preserving case $γ_1=γ_2=γ_3$ and generalized by Frolov in [ref] to arbitrary deformation parameters $γ_1$, $γ_2$ and $γ_3$.
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In [ref] , Lunin and Maldacena constructed such a dual background for any complex $q$, for $h=0$ and for $κ$ obeying [ref].
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