A deconstruction lattice description of the D1/D5 brane world-volume gauge theory (Q765436)

Summary: I generalize the deconstruction lattice formulation of Endres and Kaplan to two-dimensional super-QCD with eight supercharges, denoted by (4,4), and bifundamental matter. I specialize to a particularly interesting (4,4) gauge theory, with gauge group \(U(N_c)\times U(N_f)\), and \(U(N_f)\) being weakly gauged. It describes the infrared limit of the D1/D5 brane system, which has been studied extensively as an example of the \(\text{AdS}_{3}/\text{CFT}_{2}\) correspondence. The construction here preserves two supercharges exactly and has a lattice structure quite similar to that which has previously appeared in the deconstruction approach, that is, site, link, and diagonal fields with both the Bose and Fermi statistics. I remark on possible applications of the lattice theory that would test the \(\text{AdS}_{3}/\text{CFT}_{2}\) correspondence, particularly one that would exploit the recent worldsheet instanton analysis of Chen and Tong.