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We find the warped AdS 4 ⋉ K type-IIB supergravity solutions holographically dual to a large family of three dimensional \( \mathcal{N} = 4 \) superconformal field theories labeled by a pair \( \left( {\rho, \hat{\rho }} \right) \) of partitions of N. These superconformal theories arise as renormalization group fixed points of three dimensional mirror symmetric quiver gauge theories, denoted by \( T_{\hat{\rho }}^\rho \left( {{\text{SU}}(N)} \right) \) and \( T_\rho^{\hat{\rho }}\left( {{\text{SU}}(N)} \right) \) respectively. We give a supergravity derivation of the conjectured field theory constraints that must be satisfied in order for these gauge theories to flow to a non-trivial supersymmetric fixed point in the infrared. The exotic global symmetries of these superconformal field theories are precisely realized in our explicit supergravity description.
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Assel, B., Bachas, C., Estes, J. et al. Holographic duals of D = 3 \( \mathcal{N} = 4 \) superconformal field theories. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 87 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2011)087
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