NILPOTENT ORBITS AND CODIMENSION-2 DEFECTS OF 6d N = (2,0) THEORIES

被引:145
作者
Chacaltana, Oscar [1 ]
Distler, Jacques [2 ,3 ]
Tachikawa, Yuji [4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Estadual Paulista, Inst Fis Teor, ICTP South Amer Inst Fundamental Res, BR-01140070 Sao Paulo, Brazil
[2] Univ Texas Austin, Dept Phys, Theory Grp, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[3] Univ Texas Austin, Dept Phys, Texas Cosmol Ctr, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[4] Univ Tokyo, Inst Phys & Math Universe, Kashiwa, Chiba 2778583, Japan
来源
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS A | 2013年 / 28卷 / 3-4期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Superconformal field theory; defect operators; nilpotent orbits; SELF-DUAL STRINGS; ALGEBRAS; SHEETS; COVERS;
D O I
10.1142/S0217751X1340006X
中图分类号
O57 [原子核物理学、高能物理学];
学科分类号
070202 ;
摘要
We study the local properties of a class of codimension-2 defects of the 6d N = (2, 0) theories of type J = A, D, E labeled by nilpotent orbits of a Lie algebra g, where g is determined by J and the outer-automorphism twist around the defect. This class is a natural generalization of the defects of the six-dimensional (6d) theory of type SU(N) labeled by a Young diagram with N boxes. For any of these defects, we determine its contribution to the dimension of the Higgs branch, to the Coulomb branch operators and their scaling dimensions, to the four-dimensional (4d) central charges a and c and to the flavor central charge k.
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