MSW-type compactifications of 6d $(1,0)$ SCFTs on 4-manifolds
Abstract
In this work, we study compactifications of 6d SCFTs, in particular those of conformal matter type, on K\"ahler 4-manifolds. We show how this can be realized via wrapping M5 branes on 4-cycles of non-compact Calabi-Yau fourfolds with ADE singularity in the fiber. Such compactifications lead to domain walls in 3d theories which flow to 2d SCFTs. We compute the central charges of such 2d CFTs via 6d anomaly polynomials by employing a particular topological twist along the 4-manifold. Moreover, we study compactifications on non-compact 4-manifolds leading to coupled 3d-2d systems. We show how these can be glued together consistently to reproduce the central charge and anomaly polynomial obtained in the compact case. Lastly, we study concrete CFT proposals for some special cases.
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@article{arxiv.2211.06943,
title = {MSW-type compactifications of 6d $(1,0)$ SCFTs on 4-manifolds},
author = {Jin Chen and Zhuo Chen and Wei Cui and Babak Haghighat},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.06943},
year = {2024}
}
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45 pages, 7 figures and 2 tables v3: references added