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A holographic duality was recently established between an \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4 non-geometric AdS4 solution of type IIB supergravity in the so-called S-fold class, and a three- dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) defined as a limit of \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4 super-Yang-Mills at an interface. Using gauged supergravity, the \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2 conformal manifold (CM) of this CFT has been assessed to be two-dimensional. Here, we holographically characterise the large-N operator spectrum of the marginally-deformed CFT. We do this by, firstly, providing the algebraic structure of the complete Kaluza-Klein (KK) spectrum on the associated two-parameter family of AdS4 solutions. And, secondly, by computing the \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2 super-multiplet dimensions at the first few KK levels on a lattice in the CM, using new exceptional field theory techniques. Our KK analysis also allows us to establish that, at least at large N, this \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2 CM is topologically a non-compact cylindrical Riemann surface bounded on only one side.
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Cesàro, M., Larios, G. & Varela, O. The spectrum of marginally-deformed \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2 CFTs with AdS4 S-fold duals of type IIB. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 214 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2021)214
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