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Title: Super-Chern-Simons spectra from exceptional field theory
A bstract Exceptional Field Theory has been recently shown to be very powerful to compute Kaluza-Klein spectra. Using these techniques, the mass matrix of Kaluza-Klein vector perturbations about a specific class of AdS 4 solutions of D = 11 and massive type IIA supergravity is determined. These results are then employed to characterise the complete supersymmetric spectrum about some notable $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 and $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 3 AdS 4 solutions in this class, which are dual to specific three-dimensional superconformal Chern-Simons field theories.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2014163
PAR ID:
10253216
Author(s) / Creator(s):
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume:
2021
Issue:
4
ISSN:
1029-8479
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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