Romans mass driven flows on the D2 brane
A bstractThe addition of supersymmetric Chern Simons terms to N=8$ \mathcal{N}=8 super Yang Mills theory in three dimensions is expected to make the latter flow into infrared super conformal phases. We address this problem holographically by studying the effect of the Romans mass on the D2 brane near horizon geometry. Working in a consistent, effective four dimensional setting provided by D 4 N=8$ \mathcal{N}=8 supergravity with a dyonic ISO(7) gauging, we verify the existence of a rich web of supersymmetric domain walls triggered by the Romans mass that interpolate between the (four dimensional description of the) D2 brane and various superconformal phases. We also construct domain walls for which both endpoints are superconformal. While most of our results are numerical, we provide analytic results for the SU(3) x U(1) invariant flow into an N=2$ \mathcal{N}=2 conformal phase recently discovered.