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A holographic computation of the central charges of d = 4, Script N = 2 SCFTs

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In this article, the central charges of the d = 4, = 2 superconformal field theories arising from N D3-branes at singularities in F-theory were computed.
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We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to compute the central charges of the d = 4, = 2 superconformal field theories arising from N D3-branes at singularities in F-theory. These include the conformal theories with En global symmetries. We compute the central charges a and c related to the conformal anomaly, and also the central charges k associated to the global symmetry in these theories. All of these are related to the coefficients of Chern-Simons terms in the dual string theory on AdS5. Our computation is exact for all values of N, enabling several tests of the dualities recently proposed by Argyres and Seiberg for the E6 and E7 theories with N = 1.

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Infinite Chiral Symmetry in Four Dimensions

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Anti de sitter space and holography

TL;DR: In this article, a correspondence between conformal field theory observables and those of supergravity was proposed, where correlation functions in conformal fields are given by the dependence of the supergravity action on the asymptotic behavior at infinity.
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Monopoles, duality and chiral symmetry breaking in N=2 supersymmetric QCD

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