Chiral 2d Theories from N=4 SYM with Varying Coupling
Abstract
We study 2d chiral theories arising from 4d N=4 Super-Yang Mills (SYM) with varying coupling tau. The 2d theory is obtained by dimensional reduction of N=4 SYM on a complex curve with a partial topological twist that accounts for the non-constant tau. The resulting 2d theories can preserve (0,n) with n = 2, 4, 6, 8 chiral supersymmetry, and have a natural realization in terms of strings from wrapped D3-branes in F-theory. We determine the twisted dimensional reduction, as well as the spectrum and anomaly polynomials of the resulting strings in various dimensions. We complement this by considering the dual M-theory configurations, which can either be realized in terms of M5-branes wrapped on complex surfaces, or M2-branes on curves that result in 1d supersymmetric quantum mechanics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1612.05640,
title = {Chiral 2d Theories from N=4 SYM with Varying Coupling},
author = {Craig Lawrie and Sakura Schafer-Nameki and Timo Weigand},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.05640},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
78 pages, 2 figures, v2: references added