A New Holographic Duality for Conformal Mass Deformations
Abstract
We construct a space-dependent conformal mass deformation of ABJM on the half-space z>0 and show that the vacua of this theory are dual to a large class of half-BPS bubbling solutions of the form AdS3× S3× S3×Σ, with superalgebra D(2,1|γ)⊕2, parametrized by γ<0. The conformal symmetry of a plane is preserved provided that the mass deformation scales as m(z)=c/z. We give the first field-theory explanation of the exceptional superalgebra parameter γ in M2-brane field theory in terms of the coefficient of the inverse-distance mass deformation of ABJM: γ=(1−2c)/(1+2c). We demonstrate this using the methods of Polchinski and Strassler, which we first apply to the Janus interfaces of 𝒩=4 super Yang-Mills and ABJM to relate localized mass sources to scalar matching conditions.
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BibTeX
@misc{dulac2026holographic,
title = {{A New Holographic Duality for Conformal Mass Deformations}},
author = {Raphaël Dulac},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2611.03784},
eprint = {2611.03784},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03784},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - A New Holographic Duality for Conformal Mass Deformations
AU - Raphaël Dulac
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/11/02
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2611.03784
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03784
AB - We construct a space-dependent conformal mass deformation of ABJM on the half-space z>0 and show that the vacua of this theory are dual to a large class of half-BPS bubbling solutions of the form AdS_3× S^3× S^3×Σ, with superalgebra D(2,1|γ)^⊕2, parametrized by γ<0. The conformal symmetry of a plane is preserved provided that the mass deformation scales as m(z)=c/z. We give the first field-theory explanation of the exceptional superalgebra parameter γ in M2-brane field theory in terms of the coefficient of the inverse-distance mass deformation of ABJM: γ=(1−2c)/(1+2c). We demonstrate this using the methods of Polchinski and Strassler, which we first apply to the Janus interfaces of 𝒩=4 super Yang-Mills and ABJM to relate localized mass sources to scalar matching conditions.
ER -