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The gauge dual of Romans mass

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We deform the recently proposed holographic duality between the ABJM \( \mathcal{N} = 6 \) Chern-Simons-matter theory and type IIA string theory in \( {\text{Ad}}{{\text{s}}_4} \times {\mathbb{CP}^3} \). We add a non-zero Romans mass F 0, whose dual we identify as the sum of the Chern-Simons levels for the two gauge groups. One can naturally identify four different theories, with different amounts of supersymmetry and of flavor symmetry.

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  1. School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, 08540, U.S.A.

    Davide Gaiotto

  2. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, U.S.A.

    Alessandro Tomasiello

  3. Università di Milano-Bicocca and INFN, sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126, Milano, Italy

    Alessandro Tomasiello

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Gaiotto, D., Tomasiello, A. The gauge dual of Romans mass. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 15 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2010)015

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