On the M-Theory Approach to (Compactified) 5D Field Theories

A. Brandhuber; N. Itzhaki; J. Sonnenschein; S. Theisen; S. Yankielowizc

doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(97)01249-5

On the M-Theory Approach to (Compactified) 5D Field Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-11-19 v2

Authors: A. Brandhuber , N. Itzhaki , J. Sonnenschein , S. Theisen , S. Yankielowizc

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Abstract

We construct M-theory curves associated with brane configurations of SU(N), SO(N) and $Sp(2N)$ 5d supersymmetric gauge theories compactified on a circle. From the curves we can account for all the existing different SU(N) field theories with $N_f \leq 2 N$ . This is the correct bound for $N \geq 3$ . We remark on the exceptional case SU(2). The bounds obtained for SO(N) and $Sp(2N)$ are $N_f\leq N-4$ and $N_f\leq 2N+4$ , respectively.

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m-theory brane configurations five-dimensional gauge theories compactification su(n) so(n) sp(2n)

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9709010,
  title  = {On the M-Theory Approach to (Compactified) 5D Field Theories},
  author = {A. Brandhuber and N. Itzhaki and J. Sonnenschein and S. Theisen and S. Yankielowizc},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9709010},
  year   = {2010}
}

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