Freezing and BPS jumping
Mar 19, 2024
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Abstract: (Springer)
We report a novel BPS jumping phenomenon of 5d = 1 supersymmetric gauge theories whose brane configuration is equipped with an O7-plane. The study of the relation between O7-plane and O7-plane reveals that such BPS jumps take place when the Higgsing is triggered near the O7-plane upon a particular parameter tuning of the theories. We propose two types of gauge theories whose BPS spectra jump. One is the SU(2N + 8) gauge theory with a symmetric hypermultiplet converted to the SU(2N) gauge theory with an antisymmetric hypermultiplet. The other is pure SO(2N + 8) gauge theory jumping to pure Sp(N) gauge theory. We explicitly confirm our proposal through the (un)refined instanton partition functions. Furthermore, we discuss feasible generalizations involving an Op-plane for supersymmetric gauge theories of eight supercharges in four and three dimensions (p = 6, 5 respectively).Note:
- v1:58 pages, 17 figures, v2:footnotes added, references added, published version
- Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories
- Nonperturbative Effects
- Supersymmetric Gauge Theory
- Topological Strings
- gauge field theory: supersymmetry
- dimension: 3
- dimension: 4
- spectrum: BPS
- instanton: partition function
- supercharge
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