Colin Sterckx (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Title: From ExFT to non-SUSY conformal manifolds
Abstract: We will review a recent application of Exceptional Field Theory : finding new families of solutions of type IIB supergravity on AdS_4 x S^1 x S^5. To find such solutions, we will compactify type IIB on S^5 x S^1 to obtain a 4d gauged maximal supergravity where new solutions are simply found by extremising a scalar potential. Surprisingly, it is sometime possible to deform our new solutions and break any residual supersymmetry while preserving stability. This is surprising since, from a holographic perspective, these deformations should be dual to non-supersymmetric exactly marginal deformations. We will show that it is a generic behaviour of gravity theories compactified on a circle and we will provide a solution generating technique in terms of a tool called the mapping torus.