Orientifolds, branes, and duality of 4D gauge theories

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00384-2zbMATH Open0925.81387arXivhep-th/9703210MaRDI QIDQ1371589FDOQ1371589

Authors: Nick Evans, Clifford V. Johnson, Alfred Shapere 

Publication date: 29 October 1997

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

Abstract: Recently, a D-brane construction in type IIA string theory was shown to yield the electric/magnetic duality of four dimensional N=1 supersymmetric U(N_c) gauge theories with N_f flavours of quark. We present here an extension of that construction which yields the electric/magnetic duality for the SO(N_c) and USp(N_c) gauge theories with N_f quarks, by adding an orientifold plane which is consistent with the supersymmetry. Due to the intersection of the orientifold plane with the NS-NS fivebranes already present, new features arise which are crucial in determining the correct final structure of the dualities.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9703210

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zbMATH Keywords

supersymmetrystrong couplingtype IIA string theoryN=1 supersymmetric gauge theoriesNeveu Schwarz Neveu Schwarz fivebranesorientifold planequark flavours

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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