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We study compactifications of an infinite family of four-dimensional \( \mathcal{N} \) = 1 SCFTs on a Riemann surface in the presence of arbitrary background fluxes for global symmetries. The four-dimensional parent theories have holographic Sasaki-Einstein duals in type IIB string theory. We compute central charges and R-charges of baryonic operators in the resulting two-dimensional \( \mathcal{N} \) = (0, 2) theories in three distinct ways: from the field theory side utilizing c-extremization, its recently discovered geometric dual formulation, and holographically using new AdS3 duals of two-dimensional field theories.
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Couzens, C., het Lam, H. & Mayer, K. Twisted \( \mathcal{N} \) = 1 SCFTs and their AdS3 duals. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 32 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2020)032
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