The off-shell M5-brane and non-perturbative gauge theory

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2004.06.050zbMATH Open1236.81170arXivhep-th/0403035OpenAlexW2154555911MaRDI QIDQ874199FDOQ874199

Authors: Jan de Boer, Sebastian de Haro 

Publication date: 5 April 2007

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

Abstract: M5-branes wrapping a holomorphic curve in a Calabi-Yau manifold can be used to construct four-dimensional N=1 gauge theories. In this paper we will consider M5-brane configurations corresponding to N=2 theories broken to N=1 by a superpotential for the adjoint scalar field. These M5-brane configurations can be obtained by lifting suitable intersecting brane configurations in type IIA, or equivalently by T-dualizing IIB configurations with branes and/or fluxes. We will show that turning on non-trivial expectation values for the glueball superfields corresponds to non-holomorphic deformations of the M5-brane. We compute the superpotential and show it agrees with that computed by Dijkgraaf and Vafa. Several aspects of the gauge theory, such as the appearance of non-holomorphic one-forms with integer periods on the Seiberg-Witten curve, have a natural interpretation from the M5-brane point of view. We also explain the interpretation of the superpotential in terms of the twisted (2,0) theory living on the fivebrane.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0403035

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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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