27–30 Sept 2016
DESY Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

N=3 four dimensional field theories

28 Sept 2016, 16:55
20m
Seminar room 1 (DESY Hamburg)

Seminar room 1

DESY Hamburg

Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg
String & Mathematical Physics Parallel Session: Strings & Mathematical Physics

Speaker

Dr Diego Regalado (MPP Munich)

Description

I will describe a class of four dimensional field theories constructed by quotienting ordinary N=4 U(N) SYM by particular combinations of R-symmetry and SL(2,Z) automorphisms. These theories appear naturally on the worldvolume of D3 branes probing terminal singularities in F-theory, where they can be thought of as non-perturbative generalizations of the O3 plane. I will focus on cases preserving only 12 supercharges, where the quotient gives rise to theories with coupling fixed at a value of order one. These constructions possess an unconventional large N limit described by a non-trivial F-theory fibration with base AdS5×(S5/Zk). Upon reduction on a circle the N=3 theories flow to N=6 ABJM theories.

Primary authors

Dr Diego Regalado (MPP Munich) Dr Iñaki García-Etxebarria (MPP Munich)

Presentation materials