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We construct the gravity duals of large N supersymmetric gauge theories defined on squashed five-spheres with SU(3)×U(1) symmetry. These five-sphere backgrounds are continuously connected to the round sphere, and we find a one-parameter family of 3/4 BPS deformations and a two-parameter family of (generically) 1/4 BPS deformations. The gravity duals are constructed in Euclidean Romans F (4) gauged supergravity in six dimensions, and uplift to massive type IIA supergravity. We holographically renormalize the Romans theory, and use our general result to compute the renormalized on-shell actions for the solutions. The results agree perfectly with the large N limit of the dual gauge theory partition function, which we compute using large N matrix model techniques. In addition we compute BPS Wilson loops in these backgrounds, both in supergravity and in the large N matrix model, again finding precise agreement. Finally, we conjecture a general formula for the partition function on any five-sphere background, which for fixed gauge theory depends only on a certain supersymmetric Killing vector.
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Alday, L.F., Fluder, M., Gregory, C.M. et al. Supersymmetric gauge theories on squashed five-spheres and their gravity duals. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 67 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2014)067
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