Discrete theta angle from an O5-plane
Abstract
We consider 5d gauge theory based on a brane configuration with an O5-plane. At the UV fixed point, the theory with no matter enjoys enhanced global symmetry or depending on the discrete theta angle (mod ). A naive brane configuration with an O5-plane, however, does not distinguish two different theories, as it describes the weak coupling region. We devise a technique for computing 5d Seiberg-Witten curve of the two theories from the brane web with an O5-plane. Their Seiberg-Witten curves show that their M5 configurations under the presence of OM5-planes are different. The decompactification limit of each Seiberg-Witten curve also shows distinct phase structures in their Coulomb branch leading to significantly different 5-brane configurations with an O5-plane in the strong coupling region.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1707.07181,
title = {Discrete theta angle from an O5-plane},
author = {Hirotaka Hayashi and Sung-Soo Kim and Kimyeong Lee and Futoshi Yagi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.07181},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
v1: 45 pages, 36 figures, v2: published version, v3: a typo corrected