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A new supersymmetric D7-brane embedding in the Pilch-Warner gravitational background is found exactly, by solving the supersymmetric condition. In the dual holographic picture, our setting corresponds to adding a quenched fundamental matter sector to \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2∗ super Yang-Mills theory, at zero temperature. We show that previous results in the same setting are missing the Wess-Zumino term in the D-brane action, and how our results complete the picture.
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Chen-Lin, X., Dekel, A. Exact D7-brane embedding in the Pilch-Warner background. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 87 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2020)087
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