Twistor strings with flavour

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2007/11/088zbMATH Open1245.81051arXiv0708.1248OpenAlexW3098998546MaRDI QIDQ445674FDOQ445674

Konstantinos Zoubos, Constantinos Papageorgakis, James Bedford

Publication date: 26 August 2012

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

Abstract: We explore the tree-level description of a class of N=2 UV-finite SYM theories with fundamental flavour within a topological B-model twistor string framework. In particular, we identify the twistor dual of the Sp(N) gauge theory with one antisymmetric and four fundamental hypermultiplets, as well as that of the SU(N) theory with 2N hypermultiplets. This is achieved by suitably orientifolding/orbifolding the original N=4 setup of Witten and adding a certain number of new topological 'flavour'-branes at the orientifold/orbifold fixed planes to provide the fundamental matter. We further comment on the appearance of these objects in the B-model on CP(3|4). An interesting aspect of our construction is that, unlike the IIB description of these theories in terms of D3 and D7-branes, on the twistor side part of the global flavour symmetry is realised geometrically. We provide evidence for this correspondence by calculating and matching amplitudes on both sides.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1248

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental flavourtopological B-modeltwistor string

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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