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Holographic Origin of $a$ Maximization and Higher-Derivative ${\mathrm{AdS}}_{5}/{\mathrm{CFT}}_{4}$

Author(s): Kiril Hristov, Saurish Khandelwal, Yi Pang, and Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli We develop a consistent partially off-shell framework for evaluating higher-derivative actions of five-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ gauged supergravity with Abelian vector multiplets on ${\mathrm{AdS}}_{5}$. Using the superconformal formalism, we show that the resulting holographic expression reprodu… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 081602] Published Tue Aug 18, 2026