Orientifolds, branes, and duality of 4D gauge theories

被引:115
作者
Evans, N
Johnson, CV
Shapere, AD
机构
[1] UNIV KENTUCKY,DEPT PHYS & ASTRON,LEXINGTON,KY 40506
[2] STANFORD UNIV,DEPT PHYS,STANFORD,CA 94305
关键词
D O I
10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00384-2
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
Recently, a D-brane construction in type IIA string theory was shown to yield the electric/magnetic duality of four-dimensional N = 1 supersymmetric U(N-c) gauge theories with N-f flavours of quark. We present here an extension of that construction which yields the electric/magnetic duality for the SO(N-c) and USp(N-c) gauge theories with N-f quarks, by adding an orientifold plane which is consistent with the supersymmetry. Due to the intersection of the orientifold plane with the NS-NS fivebranes already present, new features arise which are crucial in determining the correct final structure of the dualities. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.
引用
收藏
页码:251 / 271
页数:21
相关论文
共 40 条
[1]   N=2 moduli spaces and N=1 dualities for SO(n(c)) and USp(2n(c)) super-QCD [J].
Argyres, PC ;
Plesser, MR ;
Shapere, AD .
NUCLEAR PHYSICS B, 1997, 483 (1-2) :172-186
[2]   The vacuum structure of N=2 super-QCD with classical gauge groups [J].
Argyres, PC ;
Shapere, AD .
NUCLEAR PHYSICS B, 1996, 461 (03) :437-459
[3]   The moduli space of vacua of N=2 SUSY QCD and duality in N=1 SUSY QCD [J].
Argyres, PC ;
Plesser, MR ;
Seiberg, N .
NUCLEAR PHYSICS B, 1996, 471 (1-2) :159-194
[4]   FINITE-TEMPERATURE BEHAVIOR OF THE LATTICE ABELIAN HIGGS MODEL [J].
BANKS, T ;
RABINOVICI, E .
NUCLEAR PHYSICS B, 1979, 160 (02) :349-379
[5]  
BARBON JLF, HEPTH9703051
[6]   ON THE MONODROMIES OF N=2 SUPERSYMMETRIC YANG-MILLS THEORY WITH GAUGE GROUP SO(2N) [J].
BRANDHUBER, A ;
LANDSTEINER, K .
PHYSICS LETTERS B, 1995, 358 (1-2) :73-80
[7]   WORLDSHEET APPROACH TO HETEROTIC INSTANTONS AND SOLITONS [J].
CALLAN, CG ;
HARVEY, JA ;
STROMINGER, A .
NUCLEAR PHYSICS B, 1991, 359 (2-3) :611-634
[8]   WORLDBRANE ACTIONS FOR STRING SOLITONS [J].
CALLAN, CG ;
HARVEY, JA ;
STROMINGER, A .
NUCLEAR PHYSICS B, 1991, 367 (01) :60-82
[9]   NEW CONNECTIONS BETWEEN STRING THEORIES [J].
DAI, J ;
LEIGH, RG ;
POLCHINSKI, J .
MODERN PHYSICS LETTERS A, 1989, 4 (21) :2073-2083
[10]   THE MODULI SPACE AND MONODROMIES OF N=2 SUPERSYMMETRIC SO(2R+1) YANG-MILLS THEORY [J].
DANIELSSON, UH ;
SUNDBORG, B .
PHYSICS LETTERS B, 1995, 358 (3-4) :273-280