Effervescent spikes in M-theory
A bstract AdS 3 × S 3 × S 3 solutions warped over a Riemann surface, Σ, are indexed by a parameter, γ , that defines the superconformal algebra, D (2, 1; γ ) ⨁ D (2, 1; γ ) they preserve. We show that these solutions come from multiple back-reacted M2-M5 spikes, and that different values of γ correspond to different scaling limits of the same M2-M5 solutions. We find that when γ switches from positive to negative, the infrared region of the AdS 3 switches from the tip of spikes, far from the M5 branes, to the bottom of the spikes, far from the M2 branes. We also explain how the bubbling negative- γ solutions emerge from the geometric transition of multiple M2-M5 spikes.
Authors
- Dimitrios Toulikas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7646-0201)
- Iosif Bena (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6670-6626)
- Nicholas P. Warner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1144-6089)
- Raphaël Dulac (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8408-4515)
Institutions
- University of Southern California (US)
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (IL)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (FR)
- Université Paris-Saclay (FR)
- California Southern University (US)
- CEA Paris-Saclay (FR)
- Institut de Physique Théorique (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Published
- 2026-06-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06(2026)258
- Primary Topic
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Israel Science Foundation