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Non Commercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. No Derivative Works - You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you receive permission from the author. Your fair dealings and other rights are in no way affected by the above. Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact xxxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xx.xx providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 24. Apr. 2021 Holographic F-theory Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Department of Mathematics, King’s College London, The Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom Thesis supervisor: Xxxx. Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Mathematics October 2018 Abstract The central theme of this thesis is Type IIB supergravity solutions and their field theory duals. The uniqueness of our set up is the inclusion of an AdS factor in the geometry. In traditional F-theory compactifications the non-compact part of spacetime is Minkowski space, by including an AdS factor we may appeal to the AdS/CFT correspondence and probe the dual field theories from the gravity side. In the first part of this thesis we will be interested in AdS3 solutions with F- theoretic interpretations. We find the general conditions for the existence of a su- persymmetric solution with (0, 2) supersymmetry. This is determined by the choice of a 6d K¨xxxxx base satisfying a master equation. One may give this equation an F-theoretic interpretation by the inclusion of an auxiliary elliptic fibration which models the varying axio-dilaton as in canonical F-theory compactifications. The unique family of (0, 4) solutions are holographically dual to D3-branes wrapped on curves inside a Calabi–Yau three-fold and correspond to self-dual strings in the 6d N = (0, 1) theory obtained from F-theory on the aforementioned Calabi–Yau threefold. The dual field theory to this set up has been discussed in the literature, but only in the abelian (N = 1) case. The power of the AdS/CFT correspondence allows us to make predictions for N > 1 which are otherwise inaccessible from the field theory side with current technology. We compute the holographic central charges and show that these agree with the field theory and with the anomalies of self-dual strings in 6d. We complement our analysis with a discussion of the dual M-theory solutions and a comparison of the central charges. We supplement ...
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