F-theory and orientifolds

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00347-1zbMATH Open0925.81181arXivhep-th/9605150OpenAlexW3098912958MaRDI QIDQ1920753FDOQ1920753

Authors: Ashoke Sen 

Publication date: 13 August 1996

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

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.

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

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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)

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• From M-theory higher curvature terms to \(\alpha^{\prime}\) corrections in F-theory
• F-theory, Seiberg-Witten curves and \(\mathcal{N} = {2}\) dualities
• Fluxes and warping for gauge couplings in F-theory
• Tate form and weak coupling limits in F-theory
• New F-theory lifts. II: Permutation orientifolds and enhanced singularities
• D-brane deconstructions in IIB orientifolds
• On \(\alpha'\) corrections in \(\mathcal{N} = 1\) F-theory compactifications
• G-flux in F-theory and algebraic cycles
• Topological duality twist and brane instantons in F-theory
• Unlocking the axion-dilaton in 5D supergravity
• D-brane probes, RR tadpole cancellation and \(K\)-theory charge
• Computing brane and flux superpotentials in F-theory compactifications
• The effective action of \(N=1\) Calabi-Yau orientifolds
• Generalized \(N=1\) orientifold compactifications and the Hitchin functionals
• Geometries, non-geometries, and fluxes
• Localized modes at a D-brane-O-plane intersection and heterotic alice strings
• D7-brane motion from M-theory cycles and obstructions in the weak coupling limit
• The conformal sector of F-theory GUTs
• A new CY elliptic fibration and tadpole cancellation
• Flux algebra, Bianchi identities and Freed-Witten anomalies in F-theory compactifications
• Exotic branes in string theory
• Brane instantons and fluxes in F-theory
• String junctions for arbitrary Lie-algebra representations
• Orientifold limit of F-theory vacua
• \(D\)-terms and \(F\)-terms from D7-brane fluxes
• Soft supersymmetry breaking in Calabi-Yau orientifolds with D-branes and fluxes
• Higher derivative couplings and heterotic-type I duality in eight dimensions
• Open string - string junction transitions
• Branes, Calabi-Yau spaces, and toroidal compactification of the \(N=1\) six-dimensional \(E_8\) theory
• Point-like instantons and the Spin(32)/\(\mathbb{Z}_2\) heterotic string
• Brane dynamics and \(N=1\) supersymmetric gauge theory
• Calabi-Yau four-folds for \(M\)- and \(F\)-theory compactifications
• Exceptional groups from open strings
• Non-extremal geometries and holographic phase transitions
• Argyres-Douglas loci, singularity structures and wall-crossings in pure \( \mathcal{N} = 2 \) gauge theories with classical gauge groups
• On brane back-reaction and de Sitter solutions in higher-dimensional supergravity
• Weierstrass meets Enriques
• F-theoretic vs microscopic description of a conformal \(\mathcal{N} = 2\) SYM theory
• Non-simply laced Lie algebras via F theory strings
• \(D=4\), \(N=1\), type IIB orientifolds
• Gravitational couplings and \(Z_2\) orientifolds
• Instantons in \(N=2\;\text{Sp}(N)\) superconformal gauge theories and the AdS/CFT correspondence
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• Mordell-Weil lattice via string junctions.
• Colliding singularities in F-theory and phase transitions
• \(SU(3)\times SU(2)\times U(1)\) vacua in F-theory
• 5d quivers and their \(\mathrm{AdS}_6\) duals
• Counting exceptional instantons
• Global embeddings for branes at toric singularities
• Structure in 6D and 4D \( \mathcal{N}=1 \) supergravity theories from F-theory
• Discrete Wilson lines in F-theory
• Codimension-2 brane-bulk matching: examples from six and ten dimensions
• Codimension-3 singularities and Yukawa couplings in F-theory
• Supersymmetry breaking, heterotic strings and fluxes
• F-theory flux, destabilization of orientifolds and soft terms on D7-branes
• Infinite chiral symmetry in four dimensions
• On instanton effects in F-theory
• Non-abelian gauge symmetry and the Higgs mechanism in F-theory
• Ghost D-branes
• Higgs bundles and UV completion in \(F\)-theory
• Update of D3/D7-brane inflation on \(K3\times T^2/{\mathbb Z}_2\)
• Large \(N\) field theories, string theory and gravity
• Hidden selection rules, M5-instantons and fluxes in F-theory
• Non-perturbative selection rules in F-theory
• Axion inflation in F-theory
• Magnetized E3-brane instantons in F-theory
• Three looks at instantons in F-theory -- New insights from anomaly inflow, string junctions and heterotic duality
• The exact 8d chiral ring from 4d recursion relations
• F-theory on singular spaces
• New curves from branes
• Equivalence of geometric engineering and Hanany-Witten via fractional branes.
• Large \(N\) superconformal gauge theories and supergravity orientifolds.
• Exotic branes and non-perturbative seven branes
• D7-brane moduli vs. F-theory cycles in elliptically fibred threefolds
• On the flux vacua in F-theory compactifications
• Three-dimensional gauge theories and monopoles
• \( \mathcal{N}=1 \) deformations and RG flows of \(\mathcal{N}=2 \) SCFTs
• Five-dimensional gauge theories and local mirror symmetry.
• Supersymmetric configurations, geometric transitions and new non-Kähler manifolds
• M-theory and type IIA flux compactifications
• D7-brane moduli space in axion monodromy and fluxbrane inflation
• Sections, multisections, and \(U(1)\) fields in F-theory
• Matter from geometry without resolution
• Orbifold and orientifold compactifications of F-theory and M-theory to six and four dimensions
• Holomorphic couplings in non-perturbative string compactifications
• Quantum dilatonic gravity in \(d=2,4\) and \(5\) dimensions
• String webs and \(1/4\) BPS monopoles
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• Conifolds and geometric transitions
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• New \(N=2\) superconformal field theories from M/F-theory orbifolds
• Open string-string junction transitions
• Shift-symmetries and gauge coupling functions in orientifolds and F-theory
• New \(\mathcal{N} = 2\) superconformal field theories from \(\mathcal{S}\)-folds
• Self-dual strings and stability of BPS states in \(N=2\) SU(2) gauge theories
• String junction transitions in the moduli space of \(N=2\) SYM.
• Dualities and 5-brane webs for 5d rank 2 SCFTs

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