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Probing 7-branes on Orbifolds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-09-07 v1

Abstract

D3 branes in the vicinity of an E6, E7, or E8 stack of 7-branes in flat space are known to host at low energy a famous class of strongly-coupled N = 2 superconformal field theories featuring exceptional global symmetry. What if, instead, the 7-branes wrap an orbifold? We give a systematic characterization of such theories in the case of C2/Zn, and determine their main properties, like global symmetries, spectra of Coulomb-branch operators, and patterns of Higgs-branch flows. We put forward a set of rules to construct their magnetic quivers, which directly generalize what happens in the perturbative case, and later derive them using the duality with M5 branes probing M9 walls.

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@article{arxiv.2205.08578,
  title  = {Probing 7-branes on Orbifolds},
  author = {Simone Giacomelli and Marina Moleti and Raffaele Savelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.08578},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

53 pages and many figures

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