IIB string theory explored: Reflection 7-branes

Dierigl, Markus; Heckman, Jonathan J.; Montero, Miguel; Torres, Ethan

doi:10.1103/physrevd.107.086015

Title: IIB string theory explored: Reflection 7-branes

Journal Article · 26 April 2023 · Physical Review. D.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.107.086015 · OSTI ID:1971559

^[1]; Heckman, Jonathan J. ^[2]; Montero, Miguel ^[3]; Torres, Ethan ^[4]

Ludwig Maximilian Univ. of Munich, Munich (Germany)
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States); Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)

The swampland cobordism conjecture successfully predicts the supersymmetric spectrum of 7-branes of IIB/F-theory. Including reflections on the F-theory torus, it also predicts the existence of new nonsupersymmetric objects, which we dub reflection 7-branes (R7-branes). We present evidence that these R7-branes only exist at strong coupling. R7-branes serve as end of the world branes for 9D theories obtained from type IIB asymmetric orbifold and Dabholkar-Park orientifold backgrounds, and an anomaly inflow analysis suggests the existence of a gapless Weyl fermion, which would have the quantum numbers of a goldstino. Using general arguments, we conclude that different kinds of branes are able to end on the R7, and accounting for their charge requires exotic localized degrees of freedom, for which the simplest possibility is a massless 3-form field on the R7-brane worldvolume. We also show how to generalize the standard F-theory formalism to account for reflections.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF); Simons Foundation

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0013528; PHY-1607611; PHY-2013858; 602883

OSTI ID:: 1971559

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 2420286

Journal Information:: Physical Review. D., Vol. 107, Issue 8; ISSN 2470-0010

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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