Toric geometry and the dual of c-extremization

Jerome P. Gauntlett, Dario Martelli, James Sparks
2019 Journal of High Energy Physics  
We consider D3-brane gauge theories at an arbitrary toric Calabi-Yau 3-fold cone singularity that are then further compactified on a Riemann surface Σ_g, with an arbitrary partial topological twist for the global U(1) symmetries. This constitutes a rich, infinite class of two-dimensional (0,2) theories. Under the assumption that such a theory flows to a SCFT, we show that the supergravity formulas for the central charge and R-charges of BPS baryonic operators of the dual AdS_3 solution may be
more » ... mputed using only the toric data of the Calabi-Yau 3-fold and the topological twist parameters. We exemplify the procedure for both the Y^p,q and X^p,q 3-fold singularities, along with their associated dual quiver gauge theories, showing that the new supergravity results perfectly match the field theory results obtained using c-extremization, for arbitrary twist over Σ_g. We furthermore conjecture that the trial central charge Z, which we define in gravity, matches the field theory trial c-function off-shell, and show this holds in non-trivial examples. Finally, we check our general geometric formulae against a number of explicitly known supergravity solutions.
doi:10.1007/jhep01(2019)204 fatcat:stfjsf36tvcfbneoigwgabh3j4