A bstract We study N = 2 seven-dimensional gauged supergravity coupled to three vector multiplets with SO(4) gauge group. The resulting gauged supergravity contains 10 scalars consisting of the dilaton and 9 vector multiplet scalars parametrized by SO(3 , 3) / SO(3)×SO(3) coset manifold. The maximally supersymmetric AdS ~(7)vacuum with unbroken SO(4) symmetry is identified with a (1 , 0) SCFT in six dimensions. We find one new supersymmetric AdS ~(7)critical point preserving SO(3)~(diag)? SO(3) × SO(3) ~ SO(4) and study a holographic RG flow interpolating between the SO(4) and the new SO(3) supersymmetric critical points. The RG flow is driven by a vacuum expectation value of a dimension-four operator and describes a deformation of the UV (1 , 0) SCFT to another supersymmetric fixed point in the IR. In addition, a number of non-supersymmetric critical points are identified, and some of them are stable with all scalar masses above the BF bound. RG flows to non-conformal N = (1 , 0) Super Yang-Mills with SO(2) × SO(2) and SO(2) symmetries are also investigated. Some of these flows have physically acceptable IR singularities since the scalar potential is bounded above. These provide physical RG flows from (1 , 0) SCFT to non-conformal field theories in six dimensions.
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