Gauge theories with tensors from branes and orientifolds
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 and Theory Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
- Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 (United States)
- Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 (United States)
We present brane constructions in type-IIA string theory for N=1 supersymmetric SO and Sp gauge theories with tensor representations using an orientifold six-plane. One limit of these setups corresponds to N=2 theories previously constructed by Landsteiner and Lopez, while a different limit yields N=1 SO or Sp theories with a massless tensor and no superpotential. For the Sp-type orientifold projection, a comparison with the field-theory moduli space leads us to postulate two new rules governing the stability of configurations of D-branes intersecting the orientifold. Lifting one of our configurations to M theory by finding the corresponding curves, we rederive the N=1 dualities for SO and Sp groups using semi-infinite D4 branes. {copyright} {ital 1998} {ital The American Physical Society}
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098; FG02-91ER40676; FG03-90ER40546
- OSTI ID:
- 664960
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, D, Journal Name: Physical Review, D Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 57; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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