Punctures from probe M5-branes and N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 1 superconformal field theories

Ibrahima Bah, Maxime Gabella, Nick Halmagyi
2014 Journal of High Energy Physics  
We study probe M5-branes in N=1 AdS5 solutions of M-theory that arise from M5-branes wrapped on a Riemann surface. Using the BPS condition from kappa-symmetry, we classify supersymmetric probe M5-branes that extend along all of AdS5 and intersect the Riemann surface at points. These can be viewed as punctures in the dual N=1 superconformal field theories. We find M5-branes that correspond to the two types of simple punctures previously studied in field theory. In addition, when the central
more » ... e is rational, we find a new class of M5-branes with a moduli space that includes two internal dimensions in addition to the Riemann surface. These new M5-branes have the essential characteristic of fractional branes, in that a single one at a generic point of its moduli space becomes multiple M5-branes at special points.
doi:10.1007/jhep07(2014)131 fatcat:nn3lgxb2yjbkhmb2orby3ivj4i