Little string origin of surface defects

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2017)082zbMATH Open1380.83256arXiv1608.07279MaRDI QIDQ682971FDOQ682971

Authors: Nathan Haouzi, Christian Schmid 

Publication date: 5 February 2018

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

Abstract: We derive the codimension-two defects of 4d $mathcalN=4$ Super Yang-Mills (SYM) theory from the (2, 0) little string. The origin of the little string is type IIB theory compactified on an ADE singularity. The defects are D-branes wrapping the 2-cycles of the singularity. We use this construction to make contact with the description of SYM defects due to Gukov and Witten [arXiv:hep-th/0612073]. Furthermore, we derive from a geometric perspective the complete nilpotent orbit classification of codimension-two defects, and the connection to ADE-type Toda CFT. The only data needed to specify the defects is a set of weights of the algebra obeying certain constraints, which we give explicitly. We highlight the differences between the defect classification in the little string theory and its (2, 0) CFT limit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.07279

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryconformal and W symmetryconformal field models in string theorysupersymmetric gauge theoryADE-type Toda CFT

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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Uses Software

• Mathematica

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