New Curves from Branes
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
We consider configurations of Neveu-Schwarz fivebranes, Dirichlet fourbranes and an orientifold sixplane in type IIA string theory. Upon lifting the configuration to M-theory and proposing a description of how to include the effects of the orientifold sixplane we derive the curves describing the Coulomb branch of N=2 gauge theories with orthogonal and symplectic gauge groups, product gauge groups of the form SU(k_1)...SU(k_i) x SO(N) and SU(k_1)...SU(k_i) x Sp(N). We also propose new curves describing theories with unitary gauge groups and matter in the symmetric or antisymmetric representation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9708118,
title = {New Curves from Branes},
author = {Karl Landsteiner and Esperanza Lopez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9708118},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
29 pages (harvmac b-mode), 2 figures