Orientifold planes, affine algebras and magnetic monopoles
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-02-03 v2
Abstract
We analyze string theory backgrounds that include different kinds of orientifold planes and map out a natural correspondence to (twisted) affine Kac-Moody algebras. The low-energy description of specific BPS states in these backgrounds leads to a construction of explicit twisted magnetic monopole solutions on R^3 x S^1. These backgrounds yield new low-energy field theories with twisted boundary conditions and the link with affine algebras yields a natural guess for the superpotentials of the corresponding pure N=1, and N=1* gauge theories.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0107153,
title = {Orientifold planes, affine algebras and magnetic monopoles},
author = {Amihay Hanany and Jan Troost},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0107153},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
23 pages, 7 figures, references added