Exact solutions of exceptional gauge theories from toric geometry

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00523-3zbMATH Open0925.14022arXivhep-th/9705068OpenAlexW2017715584MaRDI QIDQ1371618FDOQ1371618

Authors: John H. Brodie 

Publication date: 29 October 1997

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

Abstract: We derive four dimensional gauge theories with exceptional groups $F_4$, $E_8$, $E_7$, and $E_7$ with matter, by starting from the duality between the heterotic string on $K3$ and F-theory on a elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau 3-fold. This configuration is compactified to four dimensions on a torus, and by employing toric geometry, we compute the type IIB mirrors of the Calabi-Yaus of the type IIA string theory. We identify the Seiberg-Witten curves describing the gauge theories as ALE spaces fibered over a $P^1$ base.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9705068

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zbMATH Keywords

dualitysupersymmetryexceptional groupsfield equationsheterotic stringCalabi Yau three foldexact gauge theory solutionsSeiberg Witten curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) 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) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Compact complex (3)-folds (32J17)

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