Motivated by the study of big crunch singularities in asymptotically AdS4 spacetimes, we consider a marginal triple trace deformation of ABJM theory. The deformation corresponds to adding a potential which is unbounded below. In a ’t Hooft large N limit, the beta function for the triple trace deformation vanishes, which is consistent with the near-boundary behavior of the bulk fields. At the ne...

We extend the proposal for a detailed map between wrapped D-branes in Anti-de Sitter space and baryon-like operators in the associated dual conformal field theory provided in hep-th/0202150 to the recently formulated AdS4 × CP/ABJM correspondence. In this example, the role of the dibaryon operator of the 3dimensional CFT is played by a D4-brane wrapping a CP ⊂ CP. This topologically stable D-br...

In this paper we construct the N = 6 conformal supergravity in three dimensions from a set of Chern-Simons-like terms one for each of the graviton, gravitino, and R-symmetry gauge field and then couple this theory to the N = 6 superconformal ABJM theory. In a first step part of the coupled Lagrangian for this topologically gauged ABJM theory is derived by demanding that all terms of third and s...

We study abelian and non-abelian orbifolds of the ABJM model. We compute the precise moduli space of these models by analyzing the classical BPS equations for the theory on the cylinder, which include classical solutions of magnetic monopole operators. These determine the chiral ring of the theory, and thus they provide the complete set of order parameters determining the classical vacua of the...

We clarify how mirror symmetry acts on 3d theories with N = 2, 3 or 4 supersymmetries and non-abelian Chern-Simons terms and then construct many new examples. We identify a new duality, geometric duality, that allows us to generate large families of gauge theories, with and without Chern-Simons term, that all flow to the same conformal field theory in the infrared. In particular, we find an int...

We construct a superfield formulation for non-relativistic Chern-Simons-Matter theories with manifest dynamical supersymmetry. By eliminating all the auxiliary fields, we show that the simple action reduces to the one obtained by taking nonrelativistic limit from the relativistic Chern-Simons-Matter theory proposed in the literature. As a further application, we give a manifestly supersymmetric...

We calculate the non-abelian R-charges of BPS monopole operators in threedimensional gauge theories with N = 3 supersymmetry. This class of models includes ABJM theory, the proposed gauge theory dual of M-theory on AdS4 × S7/Zk. In the UV limit of the N = 3 theories the Yang-Mills coupling becomes weak and the monopole operators are described by classical backgrounds. This allows us to find the...

We consider twist-1, 2 operators in planar N = 6 superconformal ChernSimons ABJM theory. We derive higher order anomalous dimensions from integrability and test various QCD-inspired predictions known to hold inN = 4 SYM. In particular, we show that the asymptotic anomalous dimensions display intriguing remnants of GribovLipatov reciprocity and Low-Burnett-Kroll logarithmic cancellations. Wrappi...