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We present a non-supersymmetric deformation of probe branes describing conformal defects of codimension two in AdS/CFT. The worldvolume of the probe branes is deformed from AdSp × S1 embedded in an AdSp+2 × ℳD − p − 2 background to an embedding of Janus form, which uses an AdSp−1 slicing of AdSp and in which the brane bends along the slicing coordinate. In field theory terms this realizes conformal interfaces on codimension- two defects. We discuss these “Janus on the brane” solutions for AdS3 × S1 D3-branes in the AdS5 × S5 solution of Type IIB, realizing interfaces on surface defects in \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4 SYM, and show that similar solutions exist for probe branes in AdSp+2 × S9−p vacua of M-theory and in the AdS6 × S4 solution of massive Type IIA.
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Gutperle, M., Uhlemann, C.F. Janus on the brane. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 243 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2020)243
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