Line and surface defects in 5D N=2 SCFT from matter-coupled F(4) gauged supergravity

Abstract

We study supersymmetric solutions of matter-coupled $F(4)$ gauged supergravity in the forms of $AdS_2\times S^3$- and $AdS_3\times S^2$-sliced domain walls with a non-vanishing two-form field from the supergravity multiplet. These two types of solutions holographically describe conformal line and surface defects within five-dimensional $N=2$ SCFTs, respectively. In the case of $SO(3)\times SO(3)$ gauge group obtained by coupling $F(4)$ supergravity to three vector multiplets, we find charged domain wall solutions describing holographic RG flows between two supersymmetric $AdS_6$ vacua with a running two-form field supporting the line and surface defects. For a particular case of one vector multiplet with $SO(3)\times U(1)$ gauge group, we find solutions describing RG flows from an $AdS_6$ vacuum to physically acceptable singular geometries in the presence of defects. This class of solutions can be uplifted to type IIB theory using a consistent truncation obtained from $SO(5,5)$ exceptional field theory with half-maximal structures.