PIRSA:15080087

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5-brane web diagrams and 5d, 6d SCFTs

Hayashi, H. (2015). 5-brane web diagrams and 5d, 6d SCFTs. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/15080087

Hayashi, Hirotaka. 5-brane web diagrams and 5d, 6d SCFTs. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Aug. 11, 2015, https://pirsa.org/15080087 

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            doi = {10.48660/15080087},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/15080087},
            author = {Hayashi, Hirotaka},
            keywords = {Quantum Fields and Strings},
            language = {en},
            title = {5-brane web diagrams and 5d, 6d SCFTs},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2015},
            month = {aug},
            note = {PIRSA:15080087 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/pirsa/15080087}}
          }

Hirotaka Hayashi Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

Talk numberPIRSA:15080087
DOI10.48660/15080087
Source RepositoryPIRSA
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

We study 5d and 6d SCFTs with eight supercharges by using 5-brane web diagrams in Type IIB string theory. There are two important properties of the web diagram. One is that it enables us to compute the exact partition function of the 5d theory on the 5-brane web. Even though the web diagram is not dual to a toric geometry, we develop a technique to compute the partition function by using the topological vertex. The other is that a new class of the 5-brane web diagram is conjectured to imply that the corresponding 5d theory has a 6d superconformal fixed point at high energies. Such a web diagram is called Tao web diagram. By using the Tao web diagram, we conjecture new 5d theories whose UV completion is a 6d SCFT. Moreover, we can show that a brane configuration realizing the 6d SCFT may reduce to the Tao web diagram, giving a direct way of identifying the 6d description of the 5d theory. This construction also indicates various dualities of the 5d theories.