The M-theory origin of global properties of gauge theories

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2015.10.011MaRDI QIDQ253000zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Antonio Amariti, Claudius Klare, Domenico Orlando, Susanne Reffert

Publication date 7 March 2016

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.04743

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We show that global properties of gauge groups can be understood as geometric properties in M-theory. Different wrappings of a system of N M5-branes on a torus reduce to four-dimensional theories with $A_{N-1}$ gauge algebra and different unitary groups. The classical properties of the wrappings determine the global properties of the gauge theories without the need to impose any quantum conditions. We count the inequivalent wrappings as they fall into orbits of the modular group of the torus, which correspond to the S-duality orbits of the gauge theories.

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