Strings of Minimal 6d SCFTs. Issue 5 (21st April 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Haghighat, Babak; Klemm, Albrecht; Lockhart, Guglielmo; Vafa, Cumrun
• Is Part Of: Fortschritte der Physik. Volume 63:Issue 5(2015:May)
• Page Start: 294
• Page End: 322
• Publication Date: 2015-04-21
• Subjects: Physics -- Periodicals; 530.05
• DOI: 10.1002/prop.201500014
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0015-8208

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en" id="prop201500014-abs-0001"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>Strings associated with minimal 6d SCFTs are studied. By definition they have only one string charge and no Higgs branch and are labelled by an integer <italic>n</italic> with values 1 ≤ <italic>n</italic> ≤ 8 or <italic>n</italic> = 12. Quiver theories have previously been proposed which describe strings of SCFTs for <italic>n</italic> = 1, 2. For <italic>n</italic> &gt; 2 the strings interact with the bulk gauge symmetry. In this paper the authors find a quiver description for the <italic>n</italic> = 4 string using Sen's limit of F‐theory and calculate its elliptic genus with localization techniques. This result is checked using the duality of F‐theory with M‐theory and topological string theory.</p> </abstract>