The Geometric Dual of a-maximisation for Toric Sasaki-Einstein Manifolds

Dario Martelli; James Sparks; Shing-Tung Yau

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The Geometric Dual of a-maximisation for Toric Sasaki-Einstein Manifolds

Dario Martelli, James Sparks, Shing-Tung Yau

High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 24 Mar 2005 · 39 references

Pith's verdict: A clean, correct variational principle that turns the Reeb vector into a convex minimization over toric data; the only real gap is the acknowledged converse, and it doesn't touch the stated claim.

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This one is worth your time. The core result is that for a toric Calabi-Yau cone, the Reeb vector of the Sasaki-Einstein metric on the base is the unique minimum of a function Z built only from the primitive normal vectors v_a. That is genuinely new: prior Reeb vectors came either from explicit metrics (their own Y^{p,q} constructions) or from field-theory a-maximization. Here it falls out of a convexity argument, and the volume of Y and its toric divisors follow from b alone. The derivation is short and clean: the Einstein-Hilbert action restricted to Sasakian metrics collapses to a function of the trial Reeb vector (Eq. 3.9), and vol(Delta_b) is shown strictly convex via the Hessian formula (3.22). That Hessian step is the load-bearing piece and it holds up on reading. The examples are the right ones: conifold, Y^{p,q}, SPP, dP2, and the dP2 volume matches the independent a-maximization computation of Bertolini-Bigazzi-Cotrone. That external check is the strongest evidence in the paper and it is not self-referential in any troubling way; the metric-side comparisons are parameter-free constructions, not fitted numbers. The soft spot is the converse, and the authors name it themselves in Section 4: a critical point of Z does not by itself produce a smooth Sasaki-Einstein metric, because that needs a solution g in H(1) of the Monge-Ampere equation (2.58). They flag the dP2 volume as 'Assuming that it exists.' So the dP2 agreement is evidence for the method, not a proof of existence, and the paper frames it that way. I would not call this a flaw in the stated claim, which is conditional in form (abstract:s0) and is exactly what Section 3 proves. The 'geometric dual of a-maximization' framing is interpretive rather than proved; they say the precise relation between Z and a 'remains rather mysterious,' which is honest. Minor point: the SPP cone is not 'good' in the Lerman sense, so that example is really an orbifold statement, and they know it. Overall this is a foundational method paper for anyone working on toric Sasaki-Einstein geometry or AdS/CFT volumes. Send it to referees; expect a straightforward report.

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If correct, the result is a genuinely useful structural statement: it decouples the determination of the Reeb vector from the hard analytic problem of solving the Monge-Ampere equation, and reduces a geometric question to a finite-dimensional convex optimisation over toric data. The agreement with a-maximisation for dP2, where no metric is known, is a parameter-free cross-check between two ostensibly independent computations, and the paper is explicit that the geometric side is conditional on existence. The convexity proof (Eq. (3.22)) is short and checkable, and the worked examples are reproducible from the stated normal vectors. The paper also makes a falsifiable structural prediction, namely that for toric quiver theories a-maximisation can be performed over a two-parameter space of flavour symmetries, which is the kind of claim that later work can test.

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[Section 4, final paragraph; dP2 subsection] The forward implication (a smooth Sasaki-Einstein metric implies its Reeb vector is the unique critical point of Z) is established, but the converse is not: a critical point of Z is not shown to produce a smooth Sasaki-Einstein metric, since that requires solving the Monge-Ampere equation (2.58) for g in H(1). The authors acknowledge this in Section 4 ('we leave this for future work') and flag the dP2 volume as computed 'Assuming that it exists.' This is properly disclosed and does not undermine the stated claim, which is conditional in form. The one place it bears on presentation is the dP2 comparison: the agreement with the field-theory a-maximisation value is evidence for the method, not a proof that the dP2 Sasaki-Einstein metric exists, and the text should say so at the point of comparison rather than only in the footnote. I would ask the authors to add one sentence in the dP2 subsection making the logical status of that agreement explicit.
[Section 3, Eq. (3.13) and Eq. (3.16)] The reduction of Z to the slice b_1 = n rests on Eq. (3.15), which uses homogeneity of vol(Delta_b) of degree -n. The argument that all critical points lie on b_1 = n is correct, but the text should state explicitly that the reduced function Z-tilde in Eq. (3.16) is what is being minimised and that its critical points coincide with those of Z on the slice. As written, the transition between extremising Z on C^* and extremising Z-tilde on the slice is compressed, and a reader checking the examples could be unsure which function the quoted b_min extremises. This is a clarity issue rather than an error, but it is load-bearing for reproducing the examples.

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[Section 2, Eq. (2.13)] The 'good cone' condition is stated but the surrounding prose could note more explicitly that the SPP example in Section 3 fails it, since the text later observes that Y_SPP is singular. Cross-referencing the two passages would help the reader.
[Section 3, SPP subsection] The statement that the boundary Y_SPP is singular and that the polyhedral cone is not good is correct and useful, but the phrase 'the cube root of the canonical circle bundle' deserves a one-line explanation of what is meant by the cube root in this context.
[Section 3, Y^{p,q} subsection] The text notes that extremising Z gives four solutions on R^3 of which only one lies in the dual cone. It would strengthen the convexity discussion to state that this is exactly what the general argument in Section 3 predicts, rather than leaving it as an observation about Mathematica output.
[Section 2, Eq. (2.74) and Eq. (2.75)] The volume formulae are stated without derivation; a brief indication that they follow from integrating the symplectic volume form over mu^{-1}(Delta) would make the section self-contained.
[References] Reference [9] is listed without author names in the bibliography. This should be corrected.
[Section 4, discussion of a-maximisation] The claim that for toric quiver theories a-maximisation can be performed over a two-parameter space of flavour symmetries is interesting and falsifiable; it would be worth stating explicitly as a conjecture to be tested, so that later work can confirm or refute it.

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The Reeb vector of a toric Sasaki–Einstein manifold, and hence its volume, is the unique minimum of a function built only from the cone's toric data.

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Given a toric Calabi–Yau cone, one wants to know the Sasaki–Einstein geometry of its base — but solving the Einstein equations directly is hard, and in most cases the metric is not known. The paper shows that the Reeb vector, the distinguished Killing field that generates the Sasakian structure, can be found by minimising a single explicit function $Z$ on $n$ real variables, where $Z$ is written purely in terms of the primitive inward normals $v_a$ of the cone's facets. Because the volume of the base and the volumes of the toric divisors depend only on the Reeb vector and not on the rest of the metric, this means those volumes can be extracted without ever finding the metric. In complex dimension three the Reeb vector is dual to the R-symmetry of the AdS/CFT gauge theory and the volume is inversely proportional to its $a$ central charge, so the minimisation is a geometric mirror of $a$-maximisation. The authors check the procedure against the conifold, the whole $Y^{p,q}$ family, the suspended pinch point, and the complex cone over the second del Pezzo surface, matching known metrics and known field-theory computations.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the function $Z : C^* → ℝ$, $Z[b] = ∑_a |v_a|^{-1}$ vol$(F_a) - 2n(n-1)$ vol$(Δ_b)$, which in $n=3$ reduces to a rational expression in $b = (x,y,t)$ and the toric normals. Its two ingredients are the facet volumes $|v_a|^{-1}$ vol$(F_a) = (v_{a-1},v_a,v_{a+1}) / [8 (b,v_{a-1},v_a)(b,v_a,v_{a+1})]$ and the polytope volume, which is related to the base volume by vol$(Y) = 2^n (2π)^n$ vol$(Δ)$. The convexity proof is the mechanism that makes the extremisation well posed: writing vol$(Δ_b)$ as an integral of a step function over the cone and differentiating twice turns the Hessian into a positive-semidefinite integral over the characteristic hyperplane, which is positive definite. A byproduct is the identity $b_1 = n$ for every critical point, obtained three independent ways — from regularity of the Monge–Ampère equation, from the Stokes identity $∑_a |v_a|^{-1}$ vol$(F_a) v_a = 2n$ vol$(Δ) b$, and from the Euler scaling of $Z$.

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Core claim

The central claim is that for a fixed toric Gorenstein singularity the Reeb vector of any Sasaki–Einstein metric on the base is the unique critical point of a function $Z$ that depends only on the toric data. The route is a variational one: restricting the Einstein–Hilbert action of the base to Sasakian metrics, the authors find that the action collapses to a function of the trial Reeb vector $b$ alone, $S[b] = 4$π$∑_a$ vol$(Σ_a) - 4(n-1)^2$ vol$(Y)$, equivalently $Z[b] = (b_1 - (n-1)) 2n$ vol$(Δ_b)$ where $Δ_b$ is the polytope cut out of the cone by the characteristic hyperplane $(b,y) = 1/2$. Sasaki–Einstein metrics are critical points of this action, so the Reeb vector must extremise $Z$. The authors then show that vol$(Δ_b)$ is strictly convex on the interior of the dual cone, with Hessian $2(n+1)|b|∫_H y_i y_j dσ$, so the critical point exists, is unique, and is a global minimum of the reduced function at $b_1 = n$. The value of $Z$ at that minimum, together with the facet volumes, gives the volume of $Y$ and of each toric divisor using only the vectors $v_a$.

Load-bearing premise

The derivation shows that a smooth Sasaki–Einstein metric would have to sit at the minimum of $Z$, but it does not show that the minimum produces a metric: the authors explicitly leave the existence and uniqueness of the homogeneous function $g$ solving the Monge–Ampère equation to future work, and the del Pezzo volume is quoted assuming the metric exists.

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If this is right

The volume of any toric Sasaki–Einstein five-manifold, and the volumes of its toric three-submanifolds, become computable from the toric diagram alone, with no metric ansatz.
The procedure reproduces the known Reeb vector and volume of the whole $Y^{p,q}$ family, including the irrational case, from the four normal vectors that define the cone.
For the complex cone over the second del Pezzo surface, where no metric is known, the minimisation yields vol$(Y_{dP_2}) = \frac{1}{486}(59 + 11\sqrt{33})\,\pi^3$, matching the value obtained by $a$-maximisation in the dual quiver theory.
Because the Reeb vector commutes with all isometries, the minimisation can always be reduced to at most two variables in $n=3$, so $a$-maximisation for toric quiver theories can be carried out over a two-parameter space of flavour symmetries.
The construction is stated for any complex dimension $n$, which suggests a three-dimensional field-theory analogue of $a$-maximisation for M-theory backgrounds $AdS_4 × Y_7$.

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The method is a necessary-condition engine, not an existence proof: it tells you where the Reeb vector must sit if a smooth Sasaki–Einstein metric exists, and the remaining Monge–Ampère problem for the homogeneous function $g$ is the part that would certify existence. This split is what makes the paper usable as a fast calculator even in cases where existence is open.
Since the answer is the root of a polynomial system whose degree grows with the number of facets, the predicted central charges are generically algebraic numbers of degree higher than two; the examples happen to give quadratics, which is a feature of small toric diagrams rather than of the method.
A natural cross-check outside the paper's examples: any independent computation of the exact R-charges for a toric quiver whose cone has five or more facets would test whether $Z$-minimisation and $a$-maximisation agree beyond the del Pezzo cases checked here.
The same convexity argument applies to volumes of the characteristic polytope for any Reeb-type toric contact manifold, so the minimisation could in principle be repurposed to select canonical Sasakian structures in dimensions where no dual field theory is available.

Original abstract

We show that the Reeb vector, and hence in particular the volume, of a Sasaki-Einstein metric on the base of a toric Calabi-Yau cone of complex dimension n may be computed by minimising a function Z on R^n which depends only on the toric data that defines the singularity. In this way one can extract certain geometric information for a toric Sasaki-Einstein manifold without finding the metric explicitly. For complex dimension n=3 the Reeb vector and the volume correspond to the R-symmetry and the a central charge of the AdS/CFT dual superconformal field theory, respectively. We therefore interpret this extremal problem as the geometric dual of a-maximisation. We illustrate our results with some examples, including the Y^{p,q} singularities and the complex cone over the second del Pezzo surface.

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**Figure 1.** Toric diagram for the conifold. Notice that we have listed the normal vectors in the order of the facets of the polyhedral cone. The corresponding 3–submanifolds Σa are four copies of S 3 . The extremal function is computed to be Z[x, y, t] = (x − 2)x 8yt(x − t)(x − y) (3.28) where here, and in the following examples, we set b = (x, y, t). After imposing x = 3 the remaining equations are then easily solved, and it turns out that there is a unique 23

**Figure 2.** Toric diagram for Y 5,3 . We compute the following function Z[x, y, t] = (x − 2)p(p(p − q)x + q(p − q)y + q(2 − p + q)t) 8t(px − py + (p − 1)t)((p − q)y + (1 − p + q)t)(px + qy − (q + 1)t) . (3.32) Extremising this function is best left to Mathematica. Imposing x = 3, the remaining equations have four solutions on R 3 . However, only one lies within the dual cone C ∗ , as 24

**Figure 3.** Toric diagram for the SPP. Introducing the gauge–invariant monomials u = Z1Z4, v = Z2Z3, w = Z 2 1Z2, z = Z3Z 2 4 (3.37) we see that an equivalent algebraic description of the singularity is given by the hypersurface wz = u 2 v (3.38) 25

**Figure 4.** Toric diagram for the complex cone over dP2. The five inward pointing normals may be taken to be v1 = [1, 0, 0] , v2 = [1, 0, 1] , v3 = [1, 1, 2] , v4 = [1, 2, 1] , v5 = [1, 1, 0] . (3.46) The extremal function in this basis is Z[x, y, t] = (x − 2)(−t 2 + 2t(x + y) + (3x − y)(x + y)) 8yt(t − x − y)(t + x − y)(t − 3x + y) . (3.47) The extremum that lies inside the dual cone is computed to be bmin = 3, 9 16 (−1 + √ 33), 9 16 (−1 + √ 33) . (3.48) 10Assuming that it exists. 27

Figures reproduced from arXiv:hep-th/0503183 by the authors.

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In this section we first briefly review the equivalence of $a$-maximization with the volume minimization proposed in [ref] and then we extend it to the equivalence of $c$-extremization with the construction proposed in [ref] for all toric quiver.

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Generalizing the works of Martelli, Sparks and Yau [ref] , we relate curvature invariants of $L^5$ to the number of mesonic operators in the CFT by counting the asymptotic number of holomorphic functions on the Calabi-Yau cone over $L^5$.

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In this paper we have extended the results of [ref] concerning a geometric extremal problem, analogous to volume minimization in Sasakian geometry [ref] , that allows one to calculate key properties of supersymmetric AdS$_3×Y_7$ and AdS$_2×Y_9$ solutions.

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We have the correspondence [equation] The corresponding Kähler metric on the cone $C(M)$ is constructed using the symplectic potential $G$ [ref] .

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The approach we take in order to achieve our goal basically relies on the interplay between symplectic and complex coordinates on toric manifolds [ref] .

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Applying the volume minimization [ref] , the Reeb vector is numerically determined as [equation] and [equation] The R-charges of the chiral multiplet fields are evaluated as [equation] where [equation]

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The index is given by ([ref]): [equation] In [ref] the Reeb vector corresponding to the Ricci-flat metric was found via an extremisation procedure to be $b = (3,3/2,3/2)$ and so relabelling fugacities: [equation] the superconformal index $𝒵(ỹ, τ, z_2, z_3 )$ is therefore: [equation] where we have chosen to grade by $D^I$, $∂/∂ϕ_2$ and $∂/∂ϕ_3$.

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This result can be viewed as the analogue of the geometric dual of $a$-maximization that was presented in [ref] , for the general class of $d=4$, $N=1$ SCFTs which are holographically dual to AdS$_5×SE_5$ solutions of type IIB supergravity, where $SE_5$ is a five-dimensional Sasaki-Einstein manifold.

A geometric dual of $c$-extremization · Introduction · 0.87
As a non-trivial check, we now show that the extremization of $_2 n-1(Δ_a)$ reproduces the correct exact R-symmetry and is consistent with what we know about $a$- and $F$-maximization [ref] and their equivalence with volume minimization [ref] .

$\mathcal{I}$-Extremization for AdS$_4$ Black Holes: Master Volume, Free Energy, and Baryonic Charges · Comparing with the quantum field theory free energy · 0.89
Below we will show that indeed our formulas reduce to combinations of the corresponding toric Sasakian formulas, thus making direct contact with the results of [ref] .

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The geometric dual of $a$-maximization was derived in [ref] for AdS$_5×$SE$_5$ geometries and the geometric dual of $c$-extremization was found in [ref] for so called “GK" geometries [ref] .

On Type IIA AdS$_3$ solutions and massive GK geometries · Introduction · 0.92
In this section, we briefly summarize this property following the exposition and notation of [ref] .

Calabi-Yau Volumes and Reflexive Polytopes · The Calabi-Yau Cone $$ and Sasaki-Einstein Base $Y$ · 0.90
A geometric dual of $a-$maximization for local toric Calabi-Yau threefolds was found by Martelli, Sparks, and Yau [ref] .

Equivalence of A-Maximization and Volume Minimization · Volume Minimization · 0.83

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