Flavored surface defects in 4d N=1 SCFTs

DOI10.1007/S11005-018-01145-9zbMATH Open1417.81158arXiv1808.09509OpenAlexW3125133122MaRDI QIDQ2000948FDOQ2000948

Shlomo S. Razamat

Publication date: 1 July 2019

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss supersymmetric surface defects in compactifications of six dimensional minimal conformal matter of type SU(3) and SO(8) to four dimensions. The relevant field theories in four dimensions are N=1 quiver gauge theories with SU(3) and SU(4) gauge groups respectively. The defects are engineered by giving space-time dependent vacuum expectation values to baryonic operators. We find evidence that in the case of SU(3) minimal conformal matter the defects carry SU(2) flavor symmetry which is not a symmetry of the four dimensional model. The simplest case of a model in this class is SU(3) SQCD with nine flavors and thus the results suggest that this admits natural surface defects with SU(2) flavor symmetry. We analyze the defects using the superconformal index and derive analytic difference operators introducing the defects into the index computation. The duality properties of the four dimensional theories imply that the index of the models is a kernel function for such difference operators. In turn, checking the kernel property constitutes an independent check of the dualities and the dictionary between six dimensional compactifications and four dimensional models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09509

zbMATH Keywords

dualityintegrable modelssupersymmetric theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Representations of quivers and partially ordered sets (16G20)

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