(Un)Higgsing the M2-brane
Abstract
We study various aspects of N=2 quiver-Chern-Simons theories, conjectured to be dual to M2-branes at toric Calabi-Yau four-fold singularities, under Higgsing. In particular we study in detail the orbifold C^4/Z_2^3, obtaining a number of different quiver-Chern-Simons phases for this model, and all 18 toric partial resolutions thereof. In the process we develop a general un-Higgsing algorithm that allows one to construct quiver-Chern-Simons theories by blowing up, thus obtaining a plethora of new models. In addition we explain how turning on torsion G-flux non-trivially affects the supergravity dual of Higgsing, showing that the supergravity and field theory analyses precisely match in an example based on the Sasaki-Einstein manifold Y^(1,2)(CP^2).
Cite
@article{arxiv.0909.4557,
title = {(Un)Higgsing the M2-brane},
author = {Nessi Benishti and Yang-Hui He and James Sparks},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.4557},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
68 pages, a plethora of figures; v2: minor changes, published version