BPS open strings and A-D-E-singularities in F-theory on K3

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2010)007zbMATH Open1270.81152arXiv0910.3594WikidataQ59250256 ScholiaQ59250256MaRDI QIDQ360899FDOQ360899

Eric A. Bergshoeff, Jelle Hartong

Publication date: 27 August 2013

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

Abstract: We improve on a recently constructed graphical representation of the supergravity 7-brane solution and apply this refined representation to re-study the open string description of the A-D-E-singularities in F-theory on K3. A noteworthy feature of the graphical representation is that it provides the complete global branch cut structure of the 7-brane solution which plays an important role in our analysis. We first identify those groups of branes which when made to coincide lead to the A-D-E-gauge groups. We next show that there is always a sufficient number of open BPS strings to account for all the generators of the gauge group. However, as we will show, there is in general no one-to-one relation between BPS strings and gauge group generators. For the D_{n+4}- and E-singularities, in order to relate BPS strings with gauge group generators, we make an SU(n+4), respectively SU(5) subgroup of the D_{n+4}- and E-gauge groups manifest. We find that only for the D-series (and for the standard A-series) this is sufficient to identify, in a one-to-one manner, which BPS strings correspond to which gauge group generators.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3594

zbMATH Keywords

D-branesdiscrete and finite symmetriesF-theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) 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) Supergravity (83E50)

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