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Seiberg-Witten curves with O7$^\pm$-planes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-12-05 v2

Abstract

We construct Seiberg-Witten curves for 5d N=1\mathcal{N}=1 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(NN) gauge theory with a symmetric hypermultiplet and SU(NN) gauge theory with an antisymmetric with 8 fundamentals, and also between SO(2N2N) gauge theory and Sp(NN) gauge theory with eight fundamentals. We also compute the Seiberg-Witten curves for non-Lagrangian theories with a symmetric hypermultiplet, which includes the local P2\mathbb{P}^2 theory with an adjoint.

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@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

R2 v1 2026-06-28T11:09:48.291Z