Gauged supergravity from type IIB string theory on Y^{p,q} manifolds

Alex Buchel; James T. Liu

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Gauged supergravity from type IIB string theory on Y^{p,q} manifolds

Alex Buchel, James T. Liu

High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 1 Aug 2006 · 40 references

Pith's verdict: A genuinely useful KK ansatz for IIB on Y^{p,q}, plus a clean η/s computation whose charge-independence is real but narrower than the word 'universal' suggests.

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CitationAlex Buchel, James T. Liu. "Gauged supergravity from type IIB string theory on Y^{p,q} manifolds." arXiv:hep-th/0608002 (2006). https://pith.science/paper/X2ASYIEP

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Two things here. First, an explicit nonlinear Kaluza-Klein ansatz for IIB on Y^{p,q} (and T^{1,1} as the warm-up) reducing to minimal N=2 gauged supergravity in five dimensions, gravitino included. That is the durable contribution: it lets anyone uplift five-dimensional solutions to genuine IIB backgrounds on the whole Y^{p,q} family, and the derivation is written out in enough detail to check — vielbeins, spin connections, the five-form, the reduction of the gravitino variation down to (2.25). Second, the R-charged black hole and the η/s = 1/4π result. The fluctuation equation is solved, the auxiliary function F_ω is obtained in closed form in the appendix (A.6), and the charge dependence cancels explicitly. That is a computation, not a fit, and the cancellation is the interesting part. The conjecture at the end is labeled as a conjecture, which is the right call. The sound-speed section is thin — c_s² = 1/3 is just conformality — but it is not load-bearing. Two soft spots, in order of weight. The consistency argument for generic Y^{p,q} is asserted rather than shown: for T^{1,1} the paper says the internal ij Einstein equations are identically satisfied, but for Y^{p,q} it only says the reduction 'follows just as in the T^{1,1} case.' Given the extra structure in H(y), K(y) and (2.30), that step deserves to be written out; if the internal components do not vanish, the uplift is not a IIB solution. I expect it goes through, but it is the one place where the reader is asked to take something on faith. Separately, there is a factor-of-two slip between (4.30) and the following line — the 16πG₅ is the one that gives the correct −iωs/8π, so (4.30) looks like a typo. Worth fixing, no physics impact. On the reader's worry about [29]: that citation is only about not retaining the SU(2)×U(1) vectors, which the η/s claim does not need. The retained minimal sector is checked directly. So the gap is narrower than stated. Who should read it: anyone doing holographic hydrodynamics with charge, or wanting to uplift five-dimensional solutions onto Sasaki-Einstein backgrounds. Send it to referees; the internal-equation check is a fair revision request, not a rejection.

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[Sec. 2.2 (and abstract:s0)] The consistency of the reduction for generic Y^{p,q} is the load-bearing claim of the first half of the paper, but the internal ij components of the ten-dimensional Einstein equation are not displayed. For T^{1,1} the paper states explicitly that these components are 'identically satisfied' (Sec. 2.1); for generic Y^{p,q} Sec. 2.2 says only that 'the reduction of the ten-dimensional Einstein equation follows just as in the T^{1,1} case.' Since the Y^{p,q} base carries nontrivial curvature functions H(y) and K(y) subject to the relation (2.30), the reader cannot verify from the text that the internal components reduce to the Einstein condition on the Kaehler-Einstein base plus the Reeb fibration. The paper should either display this reduction explicitly or give the general Sasaki-Einstein argument of Sec. 2 specialized to Y^{p,q}. The mu-nu, mu-5 and gravitino checks are already done, so the gap is narrow and likely a short addition, but as written the consistency claim rests on analogy.

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[Sec. 2.1, text below Eq. (2.10)] The Kaehler form is written as J(2) = -e1^e2 - e2^e4; the second term should presumably be -e3^e4, since the base is S^2 x S^2 with vielbeins e1..e4 and the stated relation J^J = 2 e1^e2^e3^e4 requires it.
[Eq. (2.32)] The expression de5 = 2(e1^e2 + e3^e4) + (1/3)F(2) is missing the factor g that appears in the analogous T^{1,1} relation (2.11), de5 = 2J(2) + (1/3)gF(2); since e5 contains gA(1), the exterior derivative must produce (1/3)gF(2).
[Eqs. (4.30)-(4.31)] There is a factor-of-two inconsistency between these two displayed equations: (4.30) carries a prefactor -i w mu/(32 pi G5) while the following line uses i w mu/(16 pi G5). The final result -i omega s/(8 pi) and hence eta/s = 1/(4 pi) requires the 16, so (4.30) appears to contain a typo that should be corrected.
[Sec. 2.2 and Conclusion] The statement that the SU(2) x U(1) vector multiplets of the massless sector cannot be retained in a consistent truncation of the Y^{p,q} reduction rests on Ref. [29], which is a T^{1,1}/Kaehler-space analysis. The extension to generic Y^{p,q} should be presented as an expectation or supported by an explicit argument, since the Conclusion's claim that the STU model cannot be realized from Y^{p,q} depends on it. This does not affect the eta/s result, which uses only the minimal sector.
[Sec. 3, Eq. (3.23)] The first law of thermodynamics is said to be satisfied 'automatically', but the explicit check is not shown. A short line substituting (3.6) and (3.17) into (3.18) would make the thermodynamic analysis self-contained.
[Sec. 5] The motivation offered for the conjecture that eta/s is constant along the renormalization group flow is heuristic: the flow from the Z_2 orbifold of N=4 SYM to the T^{1,1} fixed point involves fields outside the minimal truncation considered here, so constancy along the flow does not follow from the present computation. The conjecture is properly labeled, but the stated motivation should be softened accordingly.
[Sec. 4.2] The result c_s^2 = 1/3 is a consequence of conformal invariance, and the derivation via P = E/(3V3) is correct; it would help to say explicitly that the chemical-potential independence follows from tracelessness of the stress tensor rather than from a cancellation specific to this background.
[Sec. 3, text before Eq. (3.23)] Typo: 'On can explicitly verify' should read 'One can explicitly verify'.

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The paper argues that the shear-viscosity-to-entropy ratio of a strongly coupled plasma stays at $1/4π$ even when a conserved R-charge chemical potential is turned on, and shows this for the infinite family of quiver gauge theories dual to黑

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The authors ask whether the celebrated ratio $η/s = 1/(4π)$ for strongly coupled plasmas survives when the plasma also carries a conserved charge, here the R-charge of a supersymmetric gauge theory. To have a setting where the question can be answered, they first write down a Kaluza-Klein reduction of type IIB string theory on the Sasaki-Einstein manifolds $Y^{p,q}$, keeping only the metric and the self-dual five-form, and argue that the result is exactly five-dimensional minimal $N=2$ gauged supergravity with a $U(1)$ graviphoton. That reduction lets them lift the known R-charged black hole of five-dimensional gauged supergravity to a genuine ten-dimensional geometry, dual to a finite-temperature $N=1$ quiver plasma with a chemical potential. They then compute the retarded two-point function of the stress tensor at zero spatial momentum in that charged black hole background and find the charge-dependent terms drop out of the low-frequency limit, leaving $η/s = 1/(4π)$ unchanged. If right, the universality of shear viscosity is far more robust than the original no-chemical-potential theorems suggested, and it holds across an infinite family of $N=1$ theories, not just $N=4$ Yang-Mills.

What carries the argument

Two pieces carry the argument. The first is the Kaluza-Klein ansatz that writes the ten-dimensional metric as a five-dimensional metric plus the Sasaki-Einstein metric on $Y^{p,q}$ with the Reeb fiber promoted to $dψ + A + A_μ dx^μ$, together with $F_{(5)} = (1+*)G_{(5)}$ with $G_{(5)} = 4gε_{(5)} - (1/3)g^2 J_{(2)} ∧ *_5 F_{(2)}$. This ansatz is asserted to be consistent at the nonlinear level: the ten-dimensional Bianchi identity and Einstein equations reduce exactly to the five-dimensional Maxwell-Chern-Simons and Einstein equations of minimal gauged supergravity. The second is the fluctuation analysis: the transverse-traceless metric perturbation $φ = c_2^{-2} δg_{12}/2$ obeys a minimally coupled scalar equation in the charged black hole background, and after a change of radial variable to $x = c_1/c_2$ the incoming-wave solution is expanded as $φ_ω = x^{-iw}(F_0 + iw F_ω + …)$ with $w = ω/(2πT)$. The charge dependence cancels in the boundary limit of the kernel, which is what produces the charge-independent $η/s$.

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Core claim

The central claim is that the ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density in the strongly coupled $SCFT_{p,q}$ plasma dual to an R-charged black hole of five-dimensional minimal $N=2$ gauged supergravity is $η/s = 1/(4π)$, independent of the $U(1)_R$ chemical potential. The computation proceeds by perturbing the charged black hole metric in the $g_{12}$ direction, reducing the quadratic fluctuation action to that of a minimally coupled scalar, and solving the resulting radial equation in a low-frequency expansion about the horizon. The charge $Q$ enters the fluctuation equation in a complicated way, so universality is not automatic; the authors show that the function controlling the boundary kernel obeys a first-order equation with an explicit solution, and that its boundary limit reproduces $-iωs/(8π)$ with $s$ the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy density. Combined with the Kubo formula this gives the quoted ratio. They also note that the speed of sound in this plasma is $c_s^2 = 1/3$, again independent of chemical potential, because the pressure is one third of the energy density.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the nonlinear Kaluza-Klein ansatz keeping only the metric and five-form is a genuinely consistent truncation of type IIB on $Y^{p,q}$, so that discarding the $SU(2) × U(1)$ vector multiplets present in the massless sector does not secretly source the Kaluza-Klein tower; the paper asserts this consistency and checks that the ten-dimensional equations reduce to the five-dimensional ones, but the argument that the vectors cannot be kept is carried over from a $T^{1,1}$ result.

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The ratio $η/s = 1/(4π)$ holds for the entire infinite family of $N=1$ superconformal quiver gauge theories $SCFT_{p,q}$ at finite temperature and finite R-charge chemical potential, not only for $N=4$ Yang-Mills with R-charges.
The R-charged black hole solutions of five-dimensional gauged supergravity lift to explicit ten-dimensional type IIB backgrounds on $Y^{p,q}$, so their thermodynamics and hydrodynamics have a genuine string-theory interpretation.
The speed of sound in these plasmas is $c_s^2 = 1/3$ at any chemical potential, since the pressure equals one third of the energy density, so the near-conformal bulk-viscosity relation is not disturbed by the charge.
Because the reduction to minimal $N=2$ gauged supergravity is the only consistent truncation on $Y^{p,q}$, the $N=2$ STU model with three independent R-charges cannot be realized from these manifolds, even though a linearized Kaluza-Klein analysis might suggest otherwise.

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If $η/s$ is unchanged by an R-charge chemical potential in both orbifold quivers and the $T^{1,1}$ quiver, it is tempting to read the result as saying the ratio is constant along the renormalization-group flow that connects the $Z_2$ orbifold of $N=4$ Yang-Mills in the ultraviolet to the $T^{1,1}$ fixed point in the infrared.
The authors' own conjecture points at a sharper test: a plasma with a chemical potential but $c_s^2 \neq 1/3$, such as a cascading gauge theory, would separate the universal shear-viscosity statement from the conformal symmetry that makes the present computation tractable.
The cancellation of $Q$ in the low-frequency kernel is reminiscent of a horizon-attached quantity, which suggests the ratio could be derivable from the near-horizon geometry alone rather than from the full radial solution.
Because the truncation drops the $SU(2) \times U(1)$ vector multiplets, a natural follow-up is to ask whether the same $η/s$ persists in a consistent truncation that retains some of them, for example through a different internal manifold where such a truncation is known to exist.

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We first construct a consistent Kaluza-Klein reduction ansatz for type IIB theory compactified on Sasaki-Einstein manifolds Y^{p,q} with Freund-Rubin 5-form flux giving rise to minimal N=2 gauged supergravity in five dimensions. We then investigate the R-charged black hole solution in this gauged supergravity, and in particular study its thermodynamics. Based on the gauge theory/string theory correspondence, this non-extremal geometry is dual to finite temperature strongly coupled four-dimensional conformal gauge theory plasma with a U(1)_R-symmetry charge chemical potential. We study transport properties of the gauge theory plasma and show that the ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density in this plasma is universal. We further conjecture that the universality of shear viscosity of strongly coupled gauge theory plasma extends to nonzero R-charge chemical potential.

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We first construct a consistent Kaluza-Klein reduction ansatz for type IIB theory compactified on Sasaki-Einstein manifolds Y^{p,q} with Freund-Rubin 5-form flux giving rise to minimal N=2 gauged supergravity in five dimensions. We then investigate the R-charged black hole solution in this gauged supergravity, and in particular study its thermodynamics. Based on the gauge theory/string theory correspondence, this non-extremal geometry is dual to finite temperature strongly coupled four-dimensional conformal gauge theory plasma with a U(1)_R-symmetry charge chemical potential. We study transport properties of the gauge theory plasma and show that the ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density in this plasma is universal. We further conjecture that the universality of shear viscosity of strongly coupled gauge theory plasma extends to nonzero R-charge chemical potential.

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A holographic gauge theory at finite charge density and magnetic field has a quantum critical point at B_c = 0.4994 with dynamical exponent z = 3, entropy scaling as T^(1/3), and a single universal scaling function of...
Magnetic Brane Solutions in AdS
hep-th 2009-08 accept novelty 7.0 of 10

Asymptotically AdS_5 magnetic brane solutions interpolate from AdS_5 to AdS_3 × T^2, and their near-horizon central charge, hence low-temperature entropy, is √(4/3) times the free N=4 super Yang-Mills value.
Consistent supersymmetric Kaluza--Klein truncations with massive modes
hep-th 2009-01 accept novelty 7.0 of 10

A consistent Kaluza-Klein reduction of D=11 supergravity on any Sasaki-Einstein seven-manifold is extended to include the massive breathing-mode multiplet while preserving N=2 supersymmetry at the bosonic level.
On Grey Galaxies and D3-branes on the Conifold
hep-th 2026-09 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

D3-branes wrapped on non-contractible cycles of T^{1,1} form stable supersymmetric BPS minima around Gutowski-Reall black holes, tying superradiance to baryonic dressings.
Continuous symmetries and charge measurement of boundary operators in holography
hep-th 2026-02 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

Continuous symmetry operators in holography are U-shaped hanging brane bound states (D5-KK in Type IIB, M5-KK in M-theory) whose worldvolume couplings reproduce the Gauss-law symmetry operators and measure charges of ...
Instability of Baryonic Black Branes
hep-th 2025-02 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

Baryonic black branes in the conifold gauge theory are shown to be dynamically unstable below T/µ_B = 0.2770(5), with an accompanying subdominant ordered phase extending to high temperatures.
Fluxification and scalarization of the conifold black holes
hep-th 2024-11 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

Two dimension-3 chiral operators of the Klebanov-Witten theory condense at the same critical chemical potential, producing flux-hair and scalar-hair black holes with ensemble-dependent phase dominance.
BPS and near-BPS black holes in $AdS_5$ and their spectrum in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM
hep-th 2022-03 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

The paper derives a gap of order N^{-2} between 1/16-BPS black holes in AdS5 and the lightest near-BPS states, and computes the density of states above it using the N=2 super-Schwarzian.
Supersymmetric spindles
hep-th 2021-12 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

Supersymmetric spindle geometries with rotational symmetry fall into exactly two classes, twist and anti-twist, and new twist solutions exist for wrapped D3- and M2-branes.
Chiral hydrodynamics in strong external magnetic fields
hep-th 2020-12 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

A systematic hydrodynamic and holographic study of chiral fluids in strong magnetic fields that identifies four new transport coefficients and computes all 27 coefficients in a strongly coupled quantum fluid.
Quasinormal modes of charged magnetic black branes & chiral magnetic transport
hep-th 2017-01 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

Holographic quasinormal modes of charged magnetic black branes show Landau-level-like excitations that become long-lived at large magnetic field when the chiral anomaly coefficient exceeds a critical value near 4.
Holographic renormalization and supersymmetry
hep-th 2016-12 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

Standard holographic renormalization breaks supersymmetry in five-dimensional minimal gauged supergravity, and a new non-standard finite boundary term restores it and reproduces the field theory Casimir energy.
Two-dimensional SCFTs from D3-branes
hep-th 2015-11 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

Twisted compactification of 4d N=1 Y^{p,q} quivers on a Riemann surface gives 2d N=(0,2) SCFTs whose central charge is (32/3)(g-1) times the 4d a-anomaly, matched by explicit AdS3 solutions of IIB supergravity.
Supersymmetry on curved spaces and superconformal anomalies
hep-th 2013-07 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

For four-dimensional superconformal theories on curved backgrounds that preserve rigid supersymmetry, the R-symmetry gauge field is determined by the Weyl tensor, and the central-charge-c terms in the trace and R-curr...
An alternative IIB embedding of F(4) gauged supergravity
hep-th 2013-02 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

A complete non-linear Kaluza-Klein ansatz embeds Romans' F(4) gauged supergravity in type IIB supergravity, so the known supersymmetric AdS6 solution is the IIB uplift of Romans' vacuum and every Romans solution gains...
All homogeneous N=2 M-theory truncations with supersymmetric AdS4 vacua
hep-th 2012-08 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

Eleven-dimensional supergravity on any seven-dimensional SU(3)-structure manifold reduces to four-dimensional N=2 gauged supergravity with vector-multiplet, Heisenberg-algebra, and hyperscalar isometries, and the fram...
Black holes dual to helical current phases
hep-th 2012-04 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

Fully back-reacted five-dimensional black holes are constructed numerically for a holographic model with a Chern-Simons term, showing a second-order transition to a phase with a spontaneously helical electric current.
Wrapped M5-branes, consistent truncations and AdS/CMT
hep-th 2010-09 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

A new consistent Kaluza-Klein reduction of M-theory on a three-manifold times a four-sphere yields a four-dimensional N=2 gauged supergravity whose charged black holes show both a superconducting and a non-superconduc...
Lifshitz Solutions of D=10 and D=11 supergravity
hep-th 2010-08 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

Infinite families of exact z = 2 Lifshitz solutions of type IIB, type IIA and D = 11 supergravity are constructed from five- and seven-dimensional Einstein spaces, and are supersymmetric when those spaces are Sasaki-Einstein.
A supersymmetric consistent truncation for conifold solutions
hep-th 2010-08 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

A symmetry-preserving reduction of type IIB string theory on T^{1,1} yields a five-dimensional gauged N=4 supergravity with three vector multiplets, plus a new family of non-supersymmetric anti-de Sitter solutions.
Universal Kaluza-Klein reductions of type IIB to N=4 supergravity in five dimensions
hep-th 2010-03 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

Type IIB supergravity on hyper-Kahler times circle and on Sasaki-Einstein five-manifolds reduces consistently to five-dimensional N=4 supergravity with two vector multiplets.
Type IIB supergravity on squashed Sasaki-Einstein manifolds
hep-th 2010-03 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

A consistent N=4 Kaluza-Klein truncation of type IIB supergravity on squashed Sasaki-Einstein manifolds yields a five-dimensional gauged supergravity with supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric anti-de Sitter vacua.
Quantum Criticality and Holographic Superconductors in M-theory
hep-th 2009-12 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

A new consistent Kaluza-Klein truncation of M-theory yields fully back-reacted holographic superconductors whose zero-temperature limit is a charged domain wall ending at a universal conformal fixed point.
Charged Magnetic Brane Solutions in AdS_5 and the fate of the third law of thermodynamics
hep-th 2009-11 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

Numerical and perturbative charged magnetic brane solutions in AdS5 suggest that a small magnetic field removes the finite extremal entropy of the Reissner-Nordstrom brane, motivating an AdS/CFT version of the Nernst theorem.
Comments on string theory backgrounds with non-relativistic conformal symmetry
hep-th 2008-07 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

The Schroedinger-symmetry gravity backgrounds are shown to arise from a TsT transformation of AdS5 x Y, their finite-temperature thermodynamics is computed, and consistent KK truncations with massive vector fields are...
D=5 SU(2)xU(1) Gauged Supergravity from D=11 Supergravity
hep-th 2007-12 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

An explicit non-linear Kaluza-Klein ansatz embeds any solution of D=5 Romans SU(2)xU(1) gauged supergravity into D=11 supergravity on any Lin-Lunin-Maldacena N=2 internal geometry.
Supersymmetric AdS_3, AdS_2 and Bubble Solutions
hep-th 2006-12 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

A single fourth-order condition on a Kahler metric generates new supersymmetric AdS3 and AdS2 supergravity solutions, including a one-parameter AdS2 family, non-compact defect duals, and toric-like families from multi...
Properties of some conformal field theories with M-theory duals
hep-th 2006-11 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

The most general supersymmetric AdS5 x M6 solutions of D=11 supergravity admit a consistent Kaluza-Klein truncation to minimal D=5 gauged supergravity, which implies η/s = 1/4π for the dual thermal plasma with R-charg...
Compactifications of the Klebanov-Witten CFT and new $AdS_3$ backgrounds
hep-th 2015-03 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

Non-Abelian T-duality applied to the Klebanov-Witten CFT compactified on a Riemann surface produces new smooth AdS3 supergravity backgrounds in Type IIA, Type IIB and M-theory, together with holographic observables fo...
N = 4 Super-Yang-Mills on Conic Space as Hologram of STU Topological Black Hole
hep-th 2014-08 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

The supersymmetric Renyi entropy of N=4 SYM on a conic four-sphere has a coupling-independent q-dependence that matches the thermodynamics of a five-dimensional STU topological black hole.
Non-Relativistic Solutions of N=2 Gauged Supergravity
hep-th 2011-02 accept novelty 5.0 of 10

In a minimal N=2 gauged supergravity, purely electric or purely magnetic gaugings give supersymmetric Lifshitz backgrounds with dynamical exponent z=2, while mixed electric-magnetic gaugings give Schrodinger and AdS b...
Consistent massive truncations of IIB supergravity on Sasaki-Einstein manifolds
hep-th 2010-03 accept novelty 5.0 of 10

A complete non-linear reduction of IIB supergravity on Sasaki-Einstein manifolds is built that retains all bosonic Kaluza-Klein modes up to the second level, with a conjecture that only lowest modes in massive traject...
Consistent Kaluza-Klein Reductions for General Supersymmetric AdS Solutions
hep-th 2007-07 accept novelty 5.0 of 10

For the most general supersymmetric AdS5 backgrounds of type IIB string theory, the authors construct a consistent Kaluza-Klein reduction to minimal five-dimensional gauged supergravity, with analogous reductions for ...
Krylov Complexity and $c$-function along RG Flows
hep-th 2026-08 conditional novelty 4.0 of 10

Along holographic RG flows, the acceleration of spread complexity and the covariant c-function are algebraically related: inversely in fixed-dimension domain walls and Dp-branes, co-monotonically in twisted compactifications.
Black Holes in Higher Dimensions
hep-th 2008-01 accept novelty 2.0 of 10

Higher-dimensional vacuum gravity admits rotating black holes with non-spherical horizons (black rings) and multi-component horizons, so four-dimensional black-hole uniqueness does not extend beyond d = 4.

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Showed that this paper's consistent Kaluza-Klein reduction to minimal D=5 N=2 gauged supergravity can also be extended to include the massive supermultiplet containing the breathing mode.

Universal Kaluza-Klein reductions of type IIB to N=4 supergravity in five dimensions (2010) · 0.98 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting

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We will show that the consistent KK reduction to minimal $D=5$ $N=2$ gauged supergravity of [ref] can also be extended to include the massive supermultiplet containing the breathing mode.

Universal Kaluza-Klein reductions of type IIB to N=4 supergravity in five dimensions · Introduction · 0.98
These are the sources for the naked singularity existing in the supergravity configurations carrying the same amount of mass [ref] , extending the analysis and interpretation originally done in [ref] in the context of $=4$ SYM and $AdS_5×S^5$.

Small Black holes vs horizonless solutions in AdS · Mesonic half-BPS sector in $=1$ toric gauge theories · 0.92
Besides including the modes discussed in [ref] , our truncation incorporates in a supersymmetric way all the supergravity states dual to the universal gauge sector of the associated conformal theories.

Type IIB supergravity on squashed Sasaki-Einstein manifolds · Introduction · 0.92

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These solutions can be uplifted on[Using the results of [ref] we can uplift on an arbitrary five-dimensional Sasaki-Einstein space; the resulting $AdS_3$ solutions have already been presented in [ref] .] an $S^5$ to type IIB supergravity using the formulae in [ref] .

D=5 SU(2)xU(1) Gauged Supergravity from D=11 Supergravity · Uplifting the Klemm-Sabra magnetic string solution · 0.92

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Repeating the same procedure as we have for the $S^5$ reduction, we find that the Killing spinor equations along the $T^1,1$ directions are solved with $λ= η_0$ being a constant spinor satisfying [equation] This is in contrast with the results of [ref] , where their Killing spinor obeys both the projection conditions above, as well as having a functional dependence on the $SU(2)$ directions given by a factor of $e^iψ/2$.

Type IIA embeddings of $D=5$ minimal gauged supergravity via Non-Abelian T-duality · $T^1,1$ truncation · 0.95
We can recover the KK reduction to minimal $D=5$ $N=2$ gauge supergravity of [ref] (see also [ref] ) by setting $U=V=e^Z=K_1=L_2=G_i=H_i=M_a=N_a=0$ and $K_2 = - F_2$.

Universal Kaluza-Klein reductions of type IIB to N=4 supergravity in five dimensions · Minimal $N=2$ gauged supergravity in $D=5$ · 0.88

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For example, for the class of $AdS_5 ×M_5$ solutions of type IIB supergravity, where $M_5$ is a Sasaki-Einstein manifold, that are dual to $N=1$ SCFTs in $d=4$, it was shown in [ref] (see also [ref] ) that there is a consistent KK reduction of IIB supergravity on $M_5$ to minimal gauged supergravity in $D=5$.

D=5 SU(2)xU(1) Gauged Supergravity from D=11 Supergravity · Introduction · 0.97
As shown in [ref] this class includes all such theories with a dual IIB or M-theory description, as all these theories admit a consistent truncation to $D=5$ minimal gauged supergravity.

Magnetic Brane Solutions in AdS · Discussion · 0.96

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A few years ago it was shown that the most general supersymmetric $AdS_5$ solutions of $D=11$ supergravity [ref] (of which Sasaki-Einstein $Y^p,q$ [ref] belong) permits a consistent reduction to minimal $N=2$ $D=5$ gauged supergravity [ref] .

3D gauged supergravity from wrapped M5-branes with AdS/CMT applications · Introduction · 0.85
At the two-derivative level, the full non-linear reduction of the bosonic sector of IIB theory on SE$_5$ was carried out in [ref] .

Computing 1/N^2 corrections in AdS/CFT · Actual computation for AdS$_5×SE_5$ · 0.84
Solutions which carry only $R$-charge have been studied in [ref] at the linearised level.

Half BPS states in AdS_5 x Y^{p,q} · Introduction · 0.82

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