Field theory questions for string theory answers

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00104-1zbMATH Open0937.81054arXivhep-th/9611222OpenAlexW2052345441MaRDI QIDQ678528FDOQ678528

Authors: Ofer Aharony, J. Sonnenschein, Shimon Yankielowicz, Stefan Theisen 

Publication date: 24 April 1997

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

Abstract: We discuss the field theory of 3-brane probes in F-theory compactifications in two configurations, generalizing the work of Sen and of Banks, Douglas and Seiberg. One configuration involves several parallel 3-brane probes in F-theory compactified on $T^4/Z_2$, while the other involves a compactification of F-theory on $T^6/Z_{2}x{Z}_2$ (which includes intersecting $D_4$ singularities). In both cases string theory provides simple pictures of the spacetime theory, whose implications for the three-brane world-volume theories are discussed. In the second case the field theory on the probe is an unusual N=1 superconformal theory, with exact electric-magnetic duality. Several open questions remain concerning the description of this theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9611222

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zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionF theory compactificationsintersecting singularitiesperturbative string theoryspacetime theoryworldvolume gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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