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We construct gravitational solutions that holographically describe two different d = 4 SCFTs joined together at a co-dimension one, planar RG interface and preserving d = 3 superconformal symmetry. The RG interface joins \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4 SYM theory on one side with the \( \mathcal{N} \) = 1 Leigh-Strassler SCFT on the other. We construct a family of such solutions, which in general are associated with spatially dependent mass deformations on the \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4 SYM side, but there is a particular solution for which these deformations vanish. We also construct a Janus solution with the Leigh-Strassler SCFT on either side of the interface. Gravitational solutions associated with superconformal interfaces involving ABJM theory and two d = 3 \( \mathcal{N} \) = 1 SCFTs with G2 symmetry are also discussed and shown to have similar properties, but they also exhibit some new features.
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Arav, I., Cheung, K.C.M., Gauntlett, J.P. et al. Superconformal RG interfaces in holography. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 168 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2020)168
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