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Title: Reflections on the matter of 3D N = 1 vacua and local S p i n ( 7 ) compactifications

Abstract

We use Higgs bundles to study the 3D $$\mathscr{N}$$ = 1 vacua obtained from M-theory compactified on a local Spin(7) space given as a four-manifold M4 of ADE singularities with further generic enhancements in the singularity type along one-dimensional subspaces. There can be strong quantum corrections to the massless degrees of freedom in the low energy effective field theory, but topologically robust quantities such as “parity” anomalies are still calculable. We show how geometric reflections of the compactification space descend to 3D reflections and discrete symmetries. The parity anomalies of the effective field theory descend from topological data of the compactification. The geometric perspective also allows us to track various perturbative and nonperturbative corrections to the 3D effective field theory. We also provide some explicit constructions of well-known 3D theories, including those which arise as edge modes of 4D topological insulators, and 3D $$\mathscr{N}$$ = 1 analogs of grand unified theories. An additional result of our analysis is that we are able to track the spectrum of extended objects and their transformations under higher-form symmetries.

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Research Org.:
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); Simons Foundation; Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Endowment; Slovenian Research Agency; University of Pennsylvania
OSTI Identifier:
1838892
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1980012
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0013528; SC0021484; 724069; P1-0306
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review D
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 105 Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; compactification; geometry; M-theory; quantum field theory; string theory techniques in condensed matter; strings and branes; supersymmetry; topology

Citation Formats

Cvetič, Mirjam, Heckman, Jonathan J., Torres, Ethan, and Zoccarato, Gianluca. Reflections on the matter of 3D N = 1 vacua and local S p i n ( 7 ) compactifications. United States: N. p., 2022. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.105.026008.
Cvetič, Mirjam, Heckman, Jonathan J., Torres, Ethan, & Zoccarato, Gianluca. Reflections on the matter of 3D N = 1 vacua and local S p i n ( 7 ) compactifications. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.026008
Cvetič, Mirjam, Heckman, Jonathan J., Torres, Ethan, and Zoccarato, Gianluca. Fri . "Reflections on the matter of 3D N = 1 vacua and local S p i n ( 7 ) compactifications". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.026008.
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abstractNote = {We use Higgs bundles to study the 3D $\mathscr{N}$ = 1 vacua obtained from M-theory compactified on a local Spin(7) space given as a four-manifold M4 of ADE singularities with further generic enhancements in the singularity type along one-dimensional subspaces. There can be strong quantum corrections to the massless degrees of freedom in the low energy effective field theory, but topologically robust quantities such as “parity” anomalies are still calculable. We show how geometric reflections of the compactification space descend to 3D reflections and discrete symmetries. The parity anomalies of the effective field theory descend from topological data of the compactification. The geometric perspective also allows us to track various perturbative and nonperturbative corrections to the 3D effective field theory. We also provide some explicit constructions of well-known 3D theories, including those which arise as edge modes of 4D topological insulators, and 3D $\mathscr{N}$ = 1 analogs of grand unified theories. An additional result of our analysis is that we are able to track the spectrum of extended objects and their transformations under higher-form symmetries.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.105.026008},
journal = {Physical Review D},
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volume = 105,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jan 07 00:00:00 EST 2022},
month = {Fri Jan 07 00:00:00 EST 2022}
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