Supersymmetric AdS2×Σ2_2\times \Sigma_2 solutions from tri-sasakian truncation

A class of $AdS_2\times \Sigma_2$, with $\Sigma_2$ being a two-sphere or a hyperbolic space, solutions within four-dimensional $N=4$ gauged supergravity coupled to three-vector multiplets with dyonic gauging is identified. The gauged supergravity has non-semisimple $SO(3)\ltimes (\mathbf{T}^3,\hat{\mathbf{T}}^3)$ gauge group and can be obtained from a consistent truncation of eleven-dimensional supergravity on a tri-sasakian manifold. The maximally symmetric vacua contain $AdS_4$ geometries with $N=1,3$ supersymmetry corresponding to $N=1$ and $N=3$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in three dimensions. We find supersymmetric solutions of the form $AdS_2\times \Sigma_2$ preserving two supercharges. These solutions describe twisted compactifications of the dual $N=1$ and $N=3$ SCFTs and should arise as near horizon geometries of dyonic black holes in asymptotically $AdS_4$ space-time. Most solutions have hyperbolic horizons although some of them exhibit spherical horizons. These provide a new class of $AdS_2\times \Sigma_2$ geometries with known M-theory origin.Comment: 31 pages, no figure, typos corrected, misleading words change

Supersymmetric deformations of 3D SCFTs from tri-sasakian truncation

We holographically study supersymmetric deformations of $N=3$ and $N=1$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in three dimensions using four-dimensional $N=4$ gauged supergravity coupled to three-vector multiplets with non-semisimple $SO(3)\ltimes (\mathbf{T}^3,\hat{\mathbf{T}}^3)$ gauge group. This gauged supergravity can be obtained from a truncation of eleven-dimensional supergravity on a tri-sasakian manifold and admits both $N=1,3$ supersymmetric and stable non-supersymmetric $AdS_4$ critical points. We analyze the BPS equations for $SO(3)$ singlet scalars in details and study possible supersymmetric solutions. A number of RG flows to non-conformal field theories and half-supersymmetric domain walls are found, and many of them can be given analytically. Apart from these "flat" domain walls, we also consider $AdS_3$-sliced domain wall solutions describing two-dimensional conformal defects with $N=(1,0)$ supersymmetry within the dual $N=1$ field theory while this type of solutions does not exist in the $N=3$ case.Comment: 33 pages, 4 figures, references added, typos and parts of the analysis corrected with numerical solutions include