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BPS states in the Minahan-Nemeschansky E6 theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-12-21 v1

Abstract

We use the method of spectral networks to compute BPS state degeneracies in the Minahan-Nemeschansky E6E_6 theory, on its Coulomb branch, without turning on a mass deformation. The BPS multiplicities come out in representations of the E6E_6 flavor symmetry. For example, along the simplest ray in electromagnetic charge space, we give the first 1414 numerical degeneracies, and the first 77 degeneracies as representations of E6E_6. We find a complicated spectrum, exhibiting exponential growth of multiplicities as a function of the electromagnetic charge. There is one unexpected outcome: the spectrum is consistent (in a nontrivial way) with the hypothesis of "spin purity," that if a BPS state in this theory has electromagnetic charge equal to nn times a primitive charge, then it appears in a spin-n2\frac{n}{2} multiplet.

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@article{arxiv.1607.01743,
  title  = {BPS states in the Minahan-Nemeschansky E6 theory},
  author = {Lotte Hollands and Andrew Neitzke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.01743},
  year   = {2016}
}

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39 pages

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