6d strings from new chiral gauge theories

2016/08/12 by Hee‐Cheol Kim, Kim, Hee-Cheol, Seok Kim +3 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1608.03919

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Abstract

We study the 6d N=(1,0) superconformal field theory with smallest non-Higgsable gauge symmetry SU(3). In particular, we propose new 2d gauge theory descriptions of its self-dual strings in the tensor branch. We use our gauge theories to compute the elliptic genera of the self-dual strings, which completely agree with the partial data known from topological strings. We further study the strings of the (E₆,E₆) conformal matter by generalizing our 2d gauge theories. We also show that anomalies of all our gauge theories agree with the self-dual string anomalies computed by inflows from 6d.

Citations

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