Field theory questions for string theory answers

Ofer Aharony; Jacob Sonnenschein; Stefan Theisen; Shimon Yankielowicz

doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00104-1

Field theory questions for string theory answers

Ofer Aharony^*, Jacob Sonnenschein, Stefan Theisen, Shimon Yankielowicz

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School of Physics and Astronomy

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We discuss the field theory of 3-brane probes in F-theory compactifications in two configurations, generalizing the work of Sen and of Banks, Douglas and Seiberg. One configuration involves several parallel 3-brane probes in F-theory compactified on T⁴/ℤ₂. while the other involves a compactification of F-theory on T⁶/ℤ₂×ℝ₂ (which includes intersecting D₄singularities). In both cases string theory provides simple pictures of the space-time theory, whose implications for the 3-brane world-volume theories are discussed. In the second case the field theory on the probe is an unusual N = 1 superconformal theory, with exact electric-magnetic duality. Several open questions remain concerning the description of this theory.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	177-197
Number of pages	21
Journal	Nuclear Physics B
Volume	493
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00104-1
State	Published - 26 May 1997

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D-branes
F-theory
String theory

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