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Discrete theta angle from an O5-plane

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-11-15 v3

Abstract

We consider 5d N=1\mathcal{N}=1 Sp(1)Sp(1) 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 SU(2)SU(2) or U(1)U(1) depending on the discrete theta angle θ=0,π\theta=0, \pi (mod 2π2\pi). 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 (p,q)(p,q) 5-brane configurations with an O5-plane in the strong coupling region.

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@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

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