Generalize the pseudo action to non-trivially fibred backgrounds

Generalize the type IIB generalized pseudo action, including the boundary terms and the associated Stokes-theorem justification, to holographic backgrounds in which the internal space is non-trivially fibred over the external spacetime, such as the asymptotically ${\rm EAdS}_3\times S^3\times M_4$ saddles of the D1-D5-P system.

Background

The generalized type IIB pseudo action is formulated using an internal-degree counting argument that ensures certain boundary nine-forms are globally defined and permits the application of Stokes’ theorem. This argument was established for factorized backgrounds of the form Md×X10−dM_d\times X_{10-d} and does not directly cover non-trivial fibrations of the internal space over the external factor.

The paper notes that asymptotically EAdS3×S3×M4{\rm EAdS}_3\times S^3\times M_4 saddles arising from the D1-D5-P system fall into this broader class, because the S3S^3 can be fibred over the external factor through flat connections encoding angular potentials. A complete extension of the pseudo-action construction to such geometries is therefore left unresolved.

References

We leave a complete generalization of the pseudo action covering such non-trivially fibred backgrounds for future work.

— Boundary-Value Problem in Type IIB Supergravity and Holography  (2609.03126 - Adhikari et al., 2 Sep 2026) in Section 3.1, subsection “D1-D5 system: ${\rm EAdS}_3\times S^3\times M_4$”