Adding Flavor to AdS4/CFT3

Understand

Aharony, Bergman, Jafferis, and Maldacena have proposed that the low-energy description of multiple M2-branes at a C4/Zk singularity is a (2+1)-dimensional N=6 supersymmetric U(Nc) x U(Nc) Chern-Simons matter theory, the ABJM theory.

• In the large-Nc limit, its holographic dual is supergravity in AdS4 x S7/Zk.
• We study various ways to add fields that transform in the fundamental representation of the gauge groups, i.e.
• flavor fields, to the ABJM theory.