Seminar series
Date
Mon, 23 Nov 2015
Time
12:00 - 13:00
Location
L3
Speaker
Oscar Varela
Organisation
Harvard

It has been recently pointed out that maximal gauged supergravities in four dimensions often come in one-parameter families. The parameter measures the combination of electric and magnetic vectors that participate in the gauging. I will discuss the higher-dimensional origin of these dyonic gaugings, when the gauge group is chosen to be ISO(7). This gauged supergravity arises from consistent truncation of massive type IIA on the six-sphere, with its dyonically-gauging parameter identified with the Romans mass. The (AdS) vacua of the 4D supergravity give rise to new explicit AdS4 backgrounds of massive type IIA. I will also show that the 3D field theories dual to these AdS4 solutions are Chern-Simons-matter theories with a simple gauge group and level k also given by the Romans mass.

 
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