R7-branes as charge conjugation operators
- 1. Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, LMU, Munich 80333, Germany
- 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
- 3. Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
- 4. Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC, c/Blas Cabrera 13-15, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Description
R7-branes are a class of recently discovered nonsupersymmetric real codimension-two duality defects in type IIB string theory predicted by the swampland cobordism conjecture. For type IIB realizations of 6D SCFTs with supersymmetry, wrapping an R7-brane "at infinity" leads to a topological operator associated with a zero-form charge conjugation symmetry that squares to the identity. Similar considerations hold for those theories obtained from further toroidal compactification, but this can be obstructed by bundle curvature effects. Using some minimal data on the topological sector of the R7-branes, we extract the associated fusion rules for these charge conjugation operators. More broadly, we sketch a top down realization of various topological operators/interfaces associated with , , and transformations. We also use holography to provide strong evidence for the existence of the R7-brane which is complementary to the cobordism conjecture. Similar considerations apply to other string-realized QFTs with symmetry operators constructed via nonsupersymmetric branes which carry a conserved charge.
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Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.046004;
- arXiv
- arXiv:2305.05689;
- Crossref Funder ID
- 10.13039/100006920; 10.13039/100000015; 10.13039/100012818;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review D
- Journal Volume
- 109
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Journal Page Range
- 16 pgs.
- ISSN
- 1089-4918
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S97: MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING;
- Descriptors DEI
- COMPACTIFICATION; D-BRANES; DUALITY; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; HOLOGRAPHIC PRINCIPLE; LORENTZ GROUPS; MEMBRANES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SMOOTH MANIFOLDS; SO-4 GROUPS; STRING MODELS; SUPERMULTIPLETS; SUPERSTRING THEORY; SUPERSYMMETRY; SYMMETRY; TOPOLOGY
- Descriptors DEC
- BRANES; COMPOSITE MODELS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD THEORIES; LIE GROUPS; M-THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MANIFOLDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICS; MULTIPLETS; PARTICLE MODELS; POINCARE GROUPS; QUARK MODEL; SO GROUPS; STRING THEORY; SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY GROUPS
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- DE-SC0013528; 2022-T1/TIC-23956
- Notes
- Contact Email: m.dierigl@lmu.de; Contact Email: jheckman@sas.upenn.edu; Contact Email: miguel.montero@csic.es; Contact Email: emtorres@sas.upenn.edu; Record automatically processed
- Funding organization
- University of Pennsylvania; U.S. Department of Energy; Comunidad de Madrid; German-Israeli Project Cooperation