F-theory and orientifolds

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00347-1MaRDI QIDQ1920753zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ashoke Sen

Publication date 13 August 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9605150

zbMATH Keywords

nonperturbative effectsstring compactificationtriality action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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 compact analytic spaces to the sciences (32J81)

Abstract: By analyzing $F$-theory on $K3$ near the orbifold limit of $K3$ we establish the equivalence between $F$-theory on $K3$ and an orientifold of type IIB on $T^2$, which in turn, is related by a T-duality transformation to type I theory on $T^2$. By analyzing the $F$-theory background away from the orbifold limit, we show that non-perturbative effects in the orientifold theory splits an orientifold plane into two planes, with non-trivial SL(2,Z) monodromy around each of them. The mathematical description of this phenomenon is identical to the Seiberg-Witten result for N=2 supersymmetric $SU(2)$ gauge theory with four quark flavors. Points of enhanced gauge symmetry in the orientifold / $F$-theory are in one to one correspondence with the points of enhanced global symmetry in the Seiberg-Witten theory.

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Cited in

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• On stringy De Sitter spacetimes
• On the BPS spectrum of the rank-1 Minahan-Nemeschansky theories
• Orientifold limits of singular \(F\)-theory vacua
• New \(N=2\) superconformal field theories from M/F-theory orbifolds
• Open string-string junction transitions
• ON THE CONFORMAL ANOMALY FROM HIGHER DERIVATIVE GRAVITY IN AdS/CFT CORRESPONDENCE
• From M-theory higher curvature terms to \(\alpha^{\prime}\) corrections in F-theory
• Fluxes and warping for gauge couplings in F-theory
• Tate form and weak coupling limits in F-theory
• On the complementarity of F-theory, orientifolds, and heterotic strings
• Exact non-abelian supertubes
• F-theory, Seiberg-Witten curves and \(\mathcal{N} = {2}\) dualities
• 6d SCFTs, 5d dualities and Tao web diagrams
• Rank-3 antisymmetric matter on 5-brane webs
• New F-theory lifts. II: Permutation orientifolds and enhanced singularities
• Shift-symmetries and gauge coupling functions in orientifolds and F-theory
• D-brane deconstructions in IIB orientifolds
• Physics of infinite complex structure limits in eight dimensions
• Loop-by-loop differential equations for dual (elliptic) Feynman integrals
• Testing our understanding of SCFTs: a catalogue of rank-2 \(\mathcal{N} = 2\) theories in four dimensions
• New \(\mathcal{N} = 2\) superconformal field theories from \(\mathcal{S}\)-folds
• On \(\alpha'\) corrections in \(\mathcal{N} = 1\) F-theory compactifications
• Flavor symmetries and the topology of special Kähler structures at rank 1
• Self-dual strings and stability of BPS states in N=2 SU(2) gauge theories
• G-flux in F-theory and algebraic cycles
• On the intermediate Jacobian of M5-branes
• String junction transitions in the moduli space of \(N=2\) SYM.
• F-theory orientifolds, M-theory orientifolds, and twisted strings
• Freezing and BPS jumping
• The AdS Veneziano amplitude at small curvature
• Topological duality twist and brane instantons in F-theory
• Unlocking the axion-dilaton in 5D supergravity
• On \(\alpha '\)-effects from \(D\)-branes in \(4d\) \( \mathcal{N} = 1\)
• Seiberg-Witten curves with \(\mathrm{O}7^\pm\)-planes
• Dualities and 5-brane webs for 5d rank 2 SCFTs
• Geometric constraints on the space of \( \mathcal{N}=2\) SCFTs. II: Construction of special Kähler geometries and RG flows
• Towards a classification of rank \(r\mathcal{N} = 2\) SCFTs. II: Special Kähler stratification of the Coulomb branch
• On condensation of closed-string tachyons
• Computing brane and flux superpotentials in F-theory compactifications
• The effective action of N=1 Calabi-Yau orientifolds
• Nongeometric heterotic strings and dual F-theory with enhanced gauge groups
• Generalized \(N=1\) orientifold compactifications and the Hitchin functionals
• On \(K3\) surfaces with large complex structure
• IIB flux non-commutativity and the global structure of field theories
• Geometries, non-geometries, and fluxes
• D-brane probes, RR tadpole cancellation and \(K\)-theory charge
• Localized modes at a D-brane-O-plane intersection and heterotic alice strings
• String junctions for arbitrary Lie-algebra representations
• The conformal sector of F-theory GUTs
• \( \mathcal{N}=2 \) central charge bounds from \(2d\) chiral algebras
• The \( \mathcal{N}=2 \) superconformal bootstrap
• D7-brane motion from M-theory cycles and obstructions in the weak coupling limit
• Matter from string junction
• A new CY elliptic fibration and tadpole cancellation
• Exotic branes in string theory
• Flux algebra, Bianchi identities and Freed-Witten anomalies in F-theory compactifications
• Modular invariants for lattice polarized \(K3\) surfaces
• Generalized quotients and holographic duals for 5d S-fold SCFTs
• Beginners lectures on flux compactifications and related swampland topics
• The characteristic dimension of four-dimensional \({\mathcal{N}} = 2\) SCFTs
• Topological data analysis for the string landscape
• Elliptic \(K3\) surfaces at infinite complex structure and their refined Kulikov models
• The frozen phase of F-theory
• Non-perturbative gauge couplings from holography
• ON EFFECTIVE F-THEORY ACTION IN TYPE IIA COMPACTIFICATIONS
• Brane instantons and fluxes in F-theory
• On mirror symmetry for Calabi-Yau fourfolds with three-form cohomology
• More on 5d descriptions of 6d SCFTs
• Equivalent string networks and uniqueness of BPS states
• Equivalence of several descriptions for 6d SCFT
• Partition functions of web diagrams with an \(O7^{-}\)-plane
• Four-dimensional de Sitter space is a Glauber-Sudarshan state in string theory
• Resolving spacetime singularities in flux compactifications \& KKLT
• On exceptional instanton strings
• M-theory and orientifolds
• \(D\)-terms and \(F\)-terms from D7-brane fluxes
• Soft supersymmetry breaking in Calabi-Yau orientifolds with D-branes and fluxes
• String junctions for arbitrary Lie-algebra representations
• Crisis on infinite earths: short-lived De Sitter vacua in the string theory landscape
• Orientifold limit of F-theory vacua
• Conformal tension in string theories and M-theory
• Inozemtsev system as Seiberg-Witten integrable system
• Discrete anomalies in supergravity and consistency of string backgrounds
• Flux vacua and modularity for \(\mathbb{Z}_2\) symmetric Calabi-Yau manifolds
• Higher derivative couplings and heterotic-type I duality in eight dimensions
• Results in supersymmetric field theory from 3-brane probe in F-theory
• Open string - string junction transitions
• Multiple fibrations in Calabi-Yau geometry and string dualities
• \(S^{1}/T^{2}\) compactifications of 6d \( \mathcal{N}=(1,0)\) theories and brane webs
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• From M-theory to F-theory, with branes
• \(N=2\) superconformal field theory with ADE global symmetry on a D3-brane probe
• Solutions to the reflection equation and integrable systems for \(N=2\) SQCD with classical groups
• The Veneziano amplitude in \(\mathrm{AdS}_5\times\mathrm{S}^3\) from an 8-dimensional effective action
• The tadpole conjecture in asymptotic limits
• Twistor strings with flavour
• Branes, Calabi-Yau spaces, and toroidal compactification of the N=1 six-dimensional E₈ theory
• Non-extremal geometries and holographic phase transitions
• Point-like instantons and the Spin(32)/\(\mathbb{Z}_2\) heterotic string

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