Beyond triality: dual quiver gauge theories and little string theories

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2018)016MaRDI QIDQ1635112zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Brice Bastian, S. Hohenegger, Amer Iqbal, Soo-Jong Rey

Publication date 18 December 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00186

zbMATH Keywords

brane dynamics in gauge theoriesstring dualitysupersymmetric gauge theorytopological strings

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) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: The web of dual gauge theories engineered from a class of toric Calabi-Yau threefolds is explored. In previous work, we have argued for a triality structure by compiling evidence for the fact that every such manifold $X_{N,M}$ (for given $(N,M)$) engineers three a priori different, weakly coupled quiver gauge theories in five dimensions. The strong coupling regime of the latter is in general described by Little String Theories. Furthermore, we also conjectured that the manifold $X_{N,M}$ is dual to $X_{N^{\prime },M^{\prime }}$ if $NM=N^{\prime }{M}^{\prime }$ and $extgcd(N,M)=extgcd(N^{\prime },M^{\prime })$. Combining this result with the triality structure, we currently argue for a large number of dual quiver gauge theories, whose instanton partition functions can be computed explicitly as specific expansions of the topological partition function $mathcal{Z}_{N,M}$ of $X_{N,M}$. We illustrate this web of dual theories by studying explicit examples in detail. We also undertake first steps in further analysing the extended moduli space of $X_{N,M}$ with the goal of finding other dual gauge theories.

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