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Dimers in a Bottle

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-05-12 v1

Abstract

We revisit D3-branes at toric CY3_3 singularities with orientifolds and their description in terms of dimer models. We classify orientifold actions on the dimer through smooth involutions of the torus. In particular, we describe new orientifold projections related to maps on the dimer without fixed points, leading to Klein bottles. These new orientifolds lead to novel N=1\mathcal{N}=1 SCFT's that resemble, in many aspects, non-orientifolded theories. For instance, we recover the presence of fractional branes and some of them trigger a cascading RG-flow \`a la Klebanov-Strassler. The remaining involutions lead to non-supersymmetric setups, thus exhausting the possible orientifolds on dimers.

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@article{arxiv.2101.02670,
  title  = {Dimers in a Bottle},
  author = {Eduardo García-Valdecasas and Shani Meynet and Antoine Pasternak and Valdo Tatitscheff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.02670},
  year   = {2021}
}

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42 pages, 42 figures and 1 Tikz drawing

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