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Hierarchies of RG flows in 6d $(1,0)$ massive E-strings

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-03-16 v1

Abstract

We extend the analysis of arXiv:2208.11703 to the 6d (1,0)(1,0) SCFTs known as massive E-string theories, which can be engineered in massive Type IIA with 8n0<88-n_0<8 D8-branes close to an O8^- (or O8^* if n0=8,9n_0=8,9). For each choice of n0=1,,9n_0=1,\ldots,9 the massive E1+(8n0)E_{1+(8-n_0)}-strings (including the more exotic E~1\tilde{E}_1 and E0E_0) are classified by constrained E8E_8 Kac labels, i.e. a subset of Hom(Zk,E8)\text{Hom}(\mathbb{Z}_k,E_8), from which one can read off the flavor subalgebra of E1+(8n0)E_{1+(8-n_0)} of each SCFT. We construct hierarchies for two types of Higgs branch RG flows: flows between massive theories defined by the same n0n_0 but different labels; flows between massive theories with different n0n_0. These latter flows are triggered by T-brane vev's for the right SU\mathrm{SU} factor of the SCFT global symmetry, whose rank is a function of both kk and n0n_0, a situation which has so far remained vastly unexplored.

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@article{arxiv.2212.14027,
  title  = {Hierarchies of RG flows in 6d $(1,0)$ massive E-strings},
  author = {Marco Fazzi and Simone Giacomelli and Suvendu Giri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.14027},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Part II of a series of papers; 37+11 pages; 13 figures