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Localizing punctures in M-theory
- Abstract:
- We use equivariant localization and holography to study four-dimensional $N = 1$ superconformal field theories arising from M5-branes wrapped on a punctured Riemann surface. We explain how, given a Riemann surface with marked points, one can glue in a ``puncture geometry'' locally around each point. Using equivariant localization we show that the central charge consists of a bulk contribution plus localized puncture contributions. We recover and generalize the known results for locally $N = 2$ preserving punctures, and derive new results for genuinely locally $N = 1$ preserving punctures.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1007/jhep02(2026)180
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/057g20z61
- Grant:
- ST/X000761/1
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- Journal:
- Journal of High Energy Physics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 2026
- Issue:
- 2
- Article number:
- 180
- Publication date:
- 2026-02-17
- Acceptance date:
- 2026-01-05
- DOI:
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1029-8479
- ISSN:
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1126-6708
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English
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2359995
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pubs:2359995
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2026-01-16
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- Couzens et al
- Copyright date:
- 2026
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- © 2026 The Authors. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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