Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1996-11-26
Nucl.Phys.B493:177-197,1997
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
havmac, 24 pages, no figures; revised version; we have corrected the discussion concerning the relationship between the orient
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00104-1
We discuss the field theory of 3-brane probes in F-theory compactifications in two configurations, generalizing the work of Sen and of Banks, Douglas and Seiberg. One configuration involves several parallel 3-brane probes in F-theory compactified on $T^4/Z_2$, while the other involves a compactification of F-theory on $T^6/Z_2 x Z_2$ (which includes intersecting $D_4$ singularities). In both cases string theory provides simple pictures of the spacetime theory, whose implications for the three-brane world-volume theories are discussed. In the second case the field theory on the probe is an unusual N=1 superconformal theory, with exact electric-magnetic duality. Several open questions remain concerning the description of this theory.
Aharony Ofer
Sonnenschein C.
Theisen Stefan
Yankielowicz Shimon
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