| Article | |
| Report number | arXiv:2203.03644 ; CERN-TH-2022-032 ; LMU-ASC 10/22 ; UPR-1316-T |
| Title | One Loop to Rule Them All: Eight and Nine Dimensional String Vacua from Junctions |
| Author(s) | Cvetič, Mirjam (Pennsylvania U. ; Maribor U. ; CERN) ; Dierigl, Markus (Munich U., ASC) ; Lin, Ling (CERN) ; Zhang, Hao Y. (Pennsylvania U.) |
| Publication | 2022-07-15 |
| Imprint | 2022-03-07 |
| Number of pages | 44 |
| In: | Phys. Rev. D 106, 2 (2022) pp.026007 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.026007 (publication) 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.026007 (publication) |
| Subject category | hep-th ; Particle Physics - Theory |
| Abstract | String and 5-brane junctions are shown to succinctly classify all known 8d ${\cal N}$=1 string vacua. This requires an extension of the description for ordinary $[p,q]$-7-branes to consistently include O7$^+$-planes, which then naturally encodes the dynamics of $\mathfrak{sp}_n$ gauge algebras, including their higher-form center symmetries. Central to this analysis are loop junctions, i.e., strings/5-branes which encircle stacks of 7-branes and O7$^+$'s. Loop junctions further signal the appearance of affine symmetries of emergent 9d descriptions at the 8d moduli space's boundaries. Such limits reproduce all 9d string vacua, including the two disconnected rank (1,1) moduli components. |
| Copyright/License | publication: Published by the American Physical Society preprint: (License: CC BY 4.0) |
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