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We continue the holographic exploration of the conformal manifold of 3d \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2 S-fold SCFTs constructed by gauging the flavor symmetry of the Gaiotto-Witten T[U(N)] theory. We show how to uplift the two-parameter family of AdS4 vacua dual to this conformal manifold to 10d backgrounds of type IIB supergravity. We use these uplifted solutions to shed new light on the mysterious nature of the infinite distance limit on the conformal manifold and to study probe strings and D3-branes. This analysis uncovers an intriguing structure of the S3 partition function of the S-fold SCFTs which resembles the giant graviton expansion of the superconformal index of 4d \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4 SYM. We also show how to each member of the family of supersymmetric AdS4 vacua one can associate a consistent truncation to 4d \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2 gauged supergravity and use this result, in conjunction with holography, to calculate the large N partition function of the 3d S-fold SCFT on compact Euclidean manifolds. Finally, we generalize the supersymmetric AdS4 vacua to a four-parameter family of non-supersymmetric AdS4 solutions.
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Acknowledgments
We are grateful to Chris Beem, Junho Hong, Krzysztof Pilch, Valentina Puletti, and Valentin Reys for fruitful discussions. The research of NB is supported by the FWO projects G003523N, G0E2723N, and G094523N, and Odysseus grant G0F9516N, as well as by the KU Leuven C1 grant ZKD1118 C16/16/005. FFG is supported by the Icelandic Research Fund under grant 228952-052 and is partially supported by grants from the University of Iceland Research Fund. JvM is supported by the ERC-CoG grant NP-QFT No. 864583 “Non-perturbative dynamics of quantum fields: from new deconfined phases of matter to quantum black holes” and by INFN Iniziativa Specifica ST&FI.
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Bobev, N., Gautason, F.F. & van Muiden, J. The conformal manifold of S-folds in string theory. J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 167 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2024)167
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