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D-type fiber-base duality

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-09-14 v1

Abstract

M5 branes probing D-type singularities give rise to 6d (1,0) SCFTs with SO×SOSO \times SO flavor symmetry known as D-type conformal matter theories. Gauging the diagonal SOSO-flavor symmetry leads to a little string theory with an intrinsic scale which can be engineered in F-theory by compactifying on a doubly-elliptic Calabi-Yau manifold. We derive Seiberg-Witten curves for these little string theories which can be interpreted as mirror curves for the corresponding Calabi-Yau manifolds. Under fiber-base duality these models are mapped to D-type quiver gauge theories and we check that their Seiberg-Witten curves match. By taking decompactification limits, we construct the curves for the related 6d SCFTs and connect to known results in the literature by further taking 5d and 4d limits.

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@article{arxiv.1806.10335,
  title  = {D-type fiber-base duality},
  author = {Babak Haghighat and Joonho Kim and Wenbin Yan and Shing-Tung Yau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.10335},
  year   = {2018}
}

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34 pages, 5 figures

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