A comment on 4d and 5d BPS states

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2020)060MaRDI QIDQ2185278zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Shamit Kachru, Max Zimet

Publication date 4 June 2020

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/1808.01529

zbMATH Keywords

brane dynamics in gauge theoriessupersymmetric gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Dimensional compactification in quantum field theory (81T33) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: We discuss a phenomenon in supersymmetric field theory and string theory whereby compactifying one of the dimensions of spacetime on an arbitrarily large circle can cause BPS states to become unstable. We exemplify this by considering 5d N=1 theories on a circle and their embeddings into M-theory via geometric engineering. This implicates a subtle relationship between the BPS states of M-theory on a Calabi-Yau threefold, X, and those of type IIA on X with an arbitrary value of the coupling constant. Intuition for this phenomenon is provided by considering F-theory on a complex K3 surface in a limit where it degenerates to a real K3 surface.

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