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Superconformal Fixed Points with E_n Global Symmetry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-09-06 v1

Abstract

We obtain the elliptic curve and the Seiberg-Witten differential for an N=2N=2 superconformal field theory which has an E8E_8 global symmetry at the strong coupling point τ=eπi/3\tau=e^{\pi i/3}. The differential has 120 poles corresponding to half the charged states in the fundamental representation of E8E_8, with the other half living on the other sheet. Using this theory, we flow down to E7E_7, E6E_6 and D4D_4. A new feature is a λSW\lambda_{SW} for these theories based on their adjoint representations. We argue that these theories have different physics than those with λSW\lambda_{SW} built from the fundamental representations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9610076,
  title  = {Superconformal Fixed Points with E_n Global Symmetry},
  author = {Joseph A. Minahan and Dennis Nemeschansky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9610076},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

23 pages, harvmac (b), Mathematica file available at http://physics.usc.edu/~minahan/Math/e8.ma