Magnetic Quivers from Brane Webs with O5 Planes

Apr 8, 2020
84 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 07 (2020) 204
  • Published: Jul 28, 2020
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Report number:
  • Imperial/TP/20/AH/03

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Abstract: (Springer)
Magnetic quivers have led to significant progress in the understanding of gauge theories with 8 supercharges at UV fixed points. For a given low-energy gauge theory realised via a Type II brane construction, there exist magnetic quivers for the Higgs branches at finite and infinite gauge coupling. Comparing these moduli spaces allows one to study the non-perturbative effects when transitioning to the fixed point. For 5d N \mathcal{N} = 1 SQCD, 5-brane webs have been an important tool for deriving magnetic quivers. In this work, the emphasis is placed on 5-brane webs with orientifold 5-planes which give rise to 5d theories with orthogonal or symplectic gauge groups. For this set-up, the magnetic quiver prescription is derived and contrasted against a unitary magnetic quiver description extracted from an O7^{−} construction. Further validation is achieved by a derivation of the associated Hasse diagrams. An important class of families considered are the orthogonal exceptional En families (−∞ < n ≤ 8), realised as infinite coupling Higgs branches of Sp(k) gauge theories with fundamental matter. In particular, the moduli spaces are realised by a novel type of magnetic quivers, called unitary-orthosymplectic quivers.
Note:
  • v2: 83 pages, 13 tables, matches JHEP version
  • Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories
  • D-branes
  • Extended Supersymmetry
  • Supersymmetric Gauge Theory
  • coupling: Higgs
  • effect: nonperturbative
  • membrane model
  • gauge field theory: quiver
  • moduli space
  • fixed point: ultraviolet