Seiberg-Witten curves with O7$^\pm$-planes
Abstract
We construct Seiberg-Witten curves for 5d gauge theories whose Type IIB 5-brane configuration involves an O7-plane and discuss an intriguing relation between theories with an O7-plane and those with an O7-plane and 8 D7-branes. We claim that 5-brane configurations with an O7-plane can be effectively understood as 5-brane configurations with a set of an O7-plane and eight D7-branes with some special tuning of their masses such that the D7-branes are frozen at the O7-plane. We check this equivalence between SU() gauge theory with a symmetric hypermultiplet and SU() gauge theory with an antisymmetric with 8 fundamentals, and also between SO() gauge theory and Sp() gauge theory with eight fundamentals. We also compute the Seiberg-Witten curves for non-Lagrangian theories with a symmetric hypermultiplet, which includes the local theory with an adjoint.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2306.11631,
title = {Seiberg-Witten curves with O7$^\pm$-planes},
author = {Hirotaka Hayashi and Sung-Soo Kim and Kimyeong Lee and Futoshi Yagi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.11631},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
v1: 64 pages, 20 figures, v2: published version