2007/03/15 by Sujay K. Ashok, Sameer Murthy, Jan Troost · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Boundary conformal field theory #Boundary value problem #Brane cosmology #Conformal field theory #Conformal map #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Duality (order theory) #Gauge theory #Geometry #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Monodromy #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Pure mathematics #Quantum mechanics #String (physics) #String theory #Superstring theory #Supersymmetry #T-duality #Theoretical physics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2007/06/047
published as JHEP 0706:047,2007 · 23 pages, 2 figures
arxiv created 2007/03/15 · openalex publication_date 2007/06/14 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We exhibit exact conformal field theory descriptions of SO(N) and Sp(N) pairs of Seiberg-dual gauge theories within string theory. The N=1 gauge theories with flavour are realized as low energy limits of the worldvolume theories on D-branes in unoriented non-critical superstring backgrounds. These unoriented backgrounds are obtained by constructing exact crosscap states in the SL(2,R)/U(1) coset conformal field theory using the modular bootstrap method. Seiberg duality is understood by studying the behaviour of the boundary and crosscap states under monodromy in the closed string parameter space.