Brane webs and $O5$-planes

Gabi Zafrir

doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2016)109

Brane webs and $O5$-planes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-04-20 v1

Authors: Gabi Zafrir

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Abstract

We explore the properties of five-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories living on $5$ -brane webs in orientifold $5$ -plane backgrounds. This allows constructing quiver gauge theories with alternating $USp(2N)$ and $SO(N)$ gauge groups with fundamental matter, and thus leads to the existence of new $5d$ fixed point theories. The web description can be further used to study non-perturbative phenomena such as enhancement of symmetry and duality. We further suggest that one can use these systems to engineer $5d$ $SO$ group with spinor matter. We present evidence for this claim.

Keywords

gauge theory and string theory brane supergravity m-theory

Cite

@article{arxiv.1512.08114,
  title  = {Brane webs and $O5$-planes},
  author = {Gabi Zafrir},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.08114},
  year   = {2016}
}