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We study CFT data of 3-dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs) arising from wrapped two M5-branes on closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Via so-called 3d/3d correspondence, central charges of these SCFTs are related to a SL(2) Chern-Simons (CS) invariant on the 3-manifolds. After developing a state-integral model for the invariant, we numerically evaluate the central charges for several closed 3-manifolds with small hyperbolic volume. The computation suggests that the wrapped M5-brane systems give infinitely many discrete SCFTs with small central charges.
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Bae, JB., Gang, D. & Lee, J. 3d \( \mathcal{N}=2 \) minimal SCFTs from wrapped M5-branes. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 118 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2017)118
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