English

Orientifold ABJM Matrix Model: Chiral Projections and Worldsheet Instantons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-06-29 v3

Abstract

We study the partition function of the orientifold ABJM theory, which is a superconformal Chern-Simons theory associated with the orthosymplectic supergroup. We find that the partition function associated with any orthosymplectic supergroup can be realized as the partition function of a Fermi gas system whose density matrix is identical to that associated with the corresponding unitary supergroup with a projection to the even or odd chirality. Furthermore we propose an identity which gives directly all of the Gopakumar-Vafa invariants for the worldsheet instanton effects in the chirally projected theories.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1603.00615,
  title  = {Orientifold ABJM Matrix Model: Chiral Projections and Worldsheet Instantons},
  author = {Sanefumi Moriyama and Tomoki Nosaka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.00615},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

20 pages, 2 figures; v2: minor changes; v3: typos corrected, a reference added

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