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A large set of relevant deformations of the ABJM field theory defined on a stack of M2 branes is captured holographically by D = 4 \( \mathcal{N} \) = 8 SO(8)-gauged supergravity, which has accordingly been applied to study renormalisation group (RG) flows of the field theory between distinct superconformal phases. Recently, it has been discovered that this supergravity is not unique, and that a one-parameter family of gaugings of maximal supergravity exists. The parameter is an angle that measures the mixture of electric and magnetic vectors that gauge SO(8) dyonically. We construct and comprehensively characterise all domain walls between the critical points of the new supergravities with at least SU(3) invariance, which are expected to be dual to RG flows of new field theories defined at least at large N. We also construct some walls running off to infinity in scalar space, which we expect to be dual to Coulomb branch flows of these field theories.
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Tarrío, J., Varela, O. Electric/magnetic duality and RG flows in AdS4/CFT3 . J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 71 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2014)071
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