English

Multi-planarizable quivers, orientifolds, and conformal dualities

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-06-26 v2

Abstract

We study orientifold projections of families of four-dimensional N=1\mathcal{N}=1 toric quiver gauge theories. We restrict to quivers that have the unusual property of being associated with multiple periodic planar diagrams which give rise, in general, to inequivalent models. A suitable orientifold projection relates a subfamily of the latter by conformal duality. That is, there exist exactly marginal deformations that connect the projected models. The deformations take the form of a sign flip in some of the superpotential interactions, similarly to the β\beta-deformation of N=4\mathcal{N}=4 SYM. Our construction generalizes previous results on the orientifold projections of the PdP3b_{3b} and PdP3c_{3c} singularities.

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@article{arxiv.2212.03913,
  title  = {Multi-planarizable quivers, orientifolds, and conformal dualities},
  author = {Antonio Amariti and Massimo Bianchi and Marco Fazzi and Salvo Mancani and Fabio Riccioni and Simone Rota},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.03913},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

47 pages, 25 figures, 2 appendices. v2: Typos corrected, improved text, 3 tables added

R2 v1 2026-06-28T07:25:12.522Z