Compactification of 6d N = (1,0) quivers, 4d SCFTs and their holographic dual Massive IIA backgrounds

In this paper we study an infinite family of Massive Type IIA backgrounds that holographically describe the twisted compactification of N = (1, 0) six-dimensional SCFTs to four dimensions. The analysis of the branes involved motivates an heuristic proposal for a four dimensional linear quiver QFT, that deconstructs the theory in six dimensions. For the case in which the system reaches a strongly coupled fixed point, we calculate some observables that we compare with holographic results. Two quantities measuring the number of degrees of freedom for the flow across dimensions are studied. Crown Copyright (c) 2023 Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons .org /licenses /by /4 .0/). Funded by SCOAP3.

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This paper studies an infinite family of Massive Type IIA backgrounds that holographically describe the twisted compactification of N = (1, 0) six-dimensional SCFTs to four dimensions. The analysis of the branes involved motivates a heuristic proposal for a four-dimensional linear quiver QFT that deconstructs the theory in six dimensions. For the case where the system reaches a strongly coupled fixed point, some observables are calculated and compared with holographic results. Two quantities measuring the number of degrees of freedom for the flow across dimensions are studied.