The ABCDEFG of little strings

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2021)092MaRDI QIDQ2044902zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nathan Haouzi, Can Kozçaz

Publication date 10 August 2021

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.11065

zbMATH Keywords

brane dynamics in gauge theoriesconformal and W symmetrynonperturbative effectssupersymmetry and duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: Starting from type IIB string theory on an $ADE$ singularity, the $(2,0)$ little string arises when one takes the string coupling $g_s$ to 0. In this setup, we give a unified description of the codimension-two defects of the little string, labeled by a simple Lie algebra $mathfrakg$. Geometrically, these are D5 branes wrapping 2-cycles of the singularity, subject to a certain folding operation when the algebra is non simply-laced. Equivalently, the defects are specified by a certain set of weights of ${}^{L}mathfrakg$, the Langlands dual of $mathfrakg$. As a first application, we show that the instanton partition function of the $mathfrakg$-type quiver gauge theory on the defect is equal to a 3-point conformal block of the $mathfrakg$-type deformed Toda theory in the Coulomb gas formalism. As a second application, we argue that in the $(2,0)$ CFT limit, the Coulomb branch of the defects flows to a nilpotent orbit of $mathfrakg$.

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