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Suspended Fixed Points

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-03-02 v2

Abstract

We study the orientifold of the N=1{\mathcal{N}} = 1 superconformal field theories describing D3-branes probing the Suspended Pinch Point singularity, as well as the orientifolds of non-chiral theories obtained by a specific orbifold Zn\mathbb{Z}_n of SPP. We find that these models realize a mechanism analogous to the one recently found for the orientifold of the complex Calabi-Yau cone over the Pseudo del Pezzo surface PdP3c_{3c}: they all flow to a new IR fixed point such that the value of the aa-charge is less than half the one of the oriented theory. We also find that the value of aa coincides with the charge of specific orientifolds of the toric singularities L(nˉ,nˉ,nˉ)L^{(\bar{n},\bar{n},\bar{n})} with nˉ=3n/2\bar{n}=3n/2 for nn even or L(nˉ,nˉ+1,nˉ)L^{(\bar{n},\bar{n}+1,\bar{n})} with nˉ=(3n1)/2\bar{n}=(3n{-}1)/2 for nn odd, suggesting the existence of an IR duality.

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@article{arxiv.2105.06195,
  title  = {Suspended Fixed Points},
  author = {Andrea Antinucci and Massimo Bianchi and Salvo Mancani and Fabio Riccioni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.06195},
  year   = {2022}
}

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41 pages, 23 figures. v2: Improved text, references added

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