Duality of chiral N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories via branes

Dec, 1998
15 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 02 (1998) 007
e-Print:
Report number:
  • BROWN-HET-1107,
  • TUW-97-19

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Abstract:
Using a six-orientifold on top of a NS-fivebrane we construct a chiral N=1 supersymmetric gauge theory in four dimensions with gauge group SU(N_c) and matter in the symmetric, antisymmetric and (anti)fundamental representations. Anomaly cancellation is fulfilled by the requirement of a smooth RR 7-form charge distribution and leads us to the introduction of 8 half D-sixbranes ending on the NS-fivebrane. We obtain the dual model from branes by a linking number argument. We check explicitly the 't Hooft anomaly matching conditions and the map between deformations in the original and the dual model.
  • membrane model: p-brane
  • p-brane: 5
  • duality: transformation
  • gauge field theory: SU(N)
  • supersymmetry
  • particle: multiplet
  • group theory: representation