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The addition of supersymmetric Chern-Simons terms to \( \mathcal{N}=8 \) super-Yang-Mills theory in three-dimensions is expected to make the latter flow into infrared super-conformal phases. We address this problem holographically by studying the effect of the Romans mass on the D2-brane near-horizon geometry. Working in a consistent, effective four-dimensional setting provided by D = 4 \( \mathcal{N}=8 \) supergravity with a dyonic ISO(7) gauging, we verify the existence of a rich web of supersymmetric domain walls triggered by the Romans mass that interpolate between the (four-dimensional description of the) D2-brane and various superconformal phases. We also construct domain walls for which both endpoints are superconformal. While most of our results are numerical, we provide analytic results for the SU(3) × U(1)-invariant flow into an \( \mathcal{N}=2 \) conformal phase recently discovered.
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Guarino, A., Tarrío, J. & Varela, O. Romans-mass-driven flows on the D2-brane. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 168 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2016)168
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