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April 30, 20240 citationsOpen Access

N = 2 Orbi-S-Folds

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SGSimone GiacomelliRSRaffaele SavelliGZGianluca Zoccarato

Key Points

  • The study reveals properties of superconformal field theories arising from non-compact type IIB string theory backgrounds.
  • Key metrics include detailed features such as spectra of Coulomb-branch operators and networks of Higgs-branch flows.
  • Analysis employs correspondence between type IIB string backgrounds and torus compactification of orbi-instanton theories for improved clarity on central charges and more other features. Their relevance includes a catalogue of rank-three superconformal field theories accessible from this new framework, augmenting understanding of existing classifications.

Abstract

We introduce a new class of non-compact backgrounds of Type IIB string theory preserving eight supercharges by combining S-folds and non-perturbative 7-branes wrapping orbifolds, and study the four-dimensional superconformal field theories arising at low energy on D3-branes probing them. We draw a precise correspondence between this setup and the torus compactification of six-dimensional orbi-instanton theories with a Stiefel-Whitney twist, and use it to determine the main features of such strongly-coupled systems, like central charges, spectra of Coulomb-branch operators, networks of Higgs-branch flows. Finally, with the aim to improve our understanding of the landscape of N=2 superconformal field theories, and possibly to extend their classification beyond rank two, we provide a detailed catalogue of all the rank-three theories that our framework gives access to.

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Giacomelli et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e6cdf2b6db64358764be32https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2405.00101
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