Non-Abelian conifold transitions and N=4 dualities in three dimensions

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00529-4zbMATH Open0934.81049arXivhep-th/9705220WikidataQ59197292 ScholiaQ59197292MaRDI QIDQ1367570FDOQ1367570

Authors: Kentaro Hori, Hirosi Ooguri, Cumrun Vafa 

Publication date: 24 September 1997

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show how Higgs mechanism for non-abelian N=2 gauge theories in four dimensions is geometrically realized in the context of type II strings as transitions among compactifications of Calabi-Yau threefolds. We use this result and T-duality of a further compacitification on a circle to derive N=4, d=3 dual field theories. This reduces dualities for N=4 gauge systems in three dimensions to perturbative symmetries of string theory. Moreover we find that the dual of a gauge system always exists but may or may not correspond to a lagrangian system. In particular we verify a conjecture of Intriligator and Seiberg that an ordinary gauge system is dual to compactification of Exceptional tensionless string theory down to three dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9705220

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zbMATH Keywords

geometryT-dualityLagrangian systemHiggs mechanismCalabi-Yau 3-fold compactificationperturbative string theory symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Applications of deformations of analytic structures to the sciences (32G81) Modifications; resolution of singularities (complex-analytic aspects) (32S45)

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