scholarly journals Why are fractional charges of orientifolds compatible with Dirac quantization?

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuji Tachikawa ◽  
Kazuya Yonekura
Keyword(s):  
String Theory ◽  
Double Cover ◽  
Topological Phases ◽  
Duality Group ◽  
Dirac Quantization ◽  
Type Iib String Theory ◽  
Symmetry Protected

Orientifold pp-planes with p\le 4p≤4 have fractional Dpp-charges, and therefore appear inconsistent with Dirac quantization with respect to D(6{-}p)(6−p)-branes. We explain in detail how this issue is resolved by taking into account the anomaly of the worldvolume fermions using the \etaη invariants. We also point out relationships to the classification of interacting fermionic symmetry protected topological phases. In an appendix, we point out that the duality group of type IIB string theory is the  pin^++ version of the double cover of GL(2,Z).

scholarly journals Classification of subsystem symmetry-protected topological phases

2018 ◽  
Vol 98 (23) ◽  
Author(s):  
Trithep Devakul ◽  
Dominic J. Williamson ◽  
Yizhi You
Keyword(s):  
Topological Phases ◽  
Symmetry Protected

scholarly journals Classification of topological phases with finite internal symmetries in all dimensions

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Kong ◽  
Tian Lan ◽  
Xiao-Gang Wen ◽  
Zhi-Hao Zhang ◽  
Hao Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Description ◽  
Mathematical Theory ◽  
Special Care ◽  
Topological Phases ◽  
Topological Excitations ◽  
Symmetry Protected ◽  
Internal Symmetries

Abstract We develop a mathematical theory of symmetry protected trivial (SPT) orders and anomaly-free symmetry enriched topological (SET) orders in all dimensions via two different approaches with an emphasis on the second approach. The first approach is to gauge the symmetry in the same dimension by adding topological excitations as it was done in the 2d case, in which the gauging process is mathematically described by the minimal modular extensions of unitary braided fusion 1-categories. This 2d result immediately generalizes to all dimensions except in 1d, which is treated with special care. The second approach is to use the 1-dimensional higher bulk of the SPT/SET order and the boundary-bulk relation. This approach also leads us to a precise mathematical description and a classification of SPT/SET orders in all dimensions. The equivalence of these two approaches, together with known physical results, provides us with many precise mathematical predictions.

scholarly journals 5d and 4d SCFTs: canonical singularities, trinions and S-dualities

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyril Closset ◽  
Simone Giacomelli ◽  
Sakura Schäfer-Nameki ◽  
Yi-Nan Wang
Keyword(s):  
String Theory ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Flavor Symmetry ◽  
Crepant Resolution ◽  
Superconformal Field Theories ◽  
Hypersurface Singularities ◽  
Canonical Singularities ◽  
Type Iib String Theory ◽  
M Theory

Abstract Canonical threefold singularities in M-theory and Type IIB string theory give rise to superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in 5d and 4d, respectively. In this paper, we study canonical hypersurface singularities whose resolutions contain residual terminal singularities and/or 3-cycles. We focus on a certain class of ‘trinion’ singularities which exhibit these properties. In Type IIB, they give rise to 4d $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 SCFTs that we call $$ {D}_p^b $$ D p b (G)-trinions, which are marginal gaugings of three SCFTs with G flavor symmetry. In order to understand the 5d physics of these trinion singularities in M-theory, we reduce these 4d and 5d SCFTs to 3d $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 theories, thus determining the electric and magnetic quivers (or, more generally, quiverines). In M-theory, residual terminal singularities give rise to free sectors of massless hypermultiplets, which often are discretely gauged. These free sectors appear as ‘ugly’ components of the magnetic quiver of the 5d SCFT. The 3-cycles in the crepant resolution also give rise to free hypermultiplets, but their physics is more subtle, and their presence renders the magnetic quiver ‘bad’. We propose a way to redeem the badness of these quivers using a class $$ \mathcal{S} $$ S realization. We also discover new S-dualities between different $$ {D}_p^b $$ D p b (G)-trinions. For instance, a certain E8 gauging of the E8 Minahan-Nemeschansky theory is S-dual to an E8-shaped Lagrangian quiver SCFT.

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