Orientifold dual for stuck NS5 branes

Feng, Bo; Uranga, Angel M.; He, Yang-Hui; Karch, Andreas

doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2001/06/065

Article
Report number	hep-th/0103177 ; MIT-CTP-3101 ; CERN-TH-2001-076 ; CERN-TH-2001-076
Title	Orientifold dual for stuck NS5 branes
Related title	Orientifold dual for stuck NS5 branes.
Author(s)	Feng, Bo (MIT, LNS) ; He, Yang-Hui (MIT, LNS) ; Karch, Andreas (MIT, LNS) ; Uranga, Angel M. (CERN)
Publication	2001
Imprint	2001
Number of pages	24
In:	JHEP 06 (2001) 065
DOI	10.1088/1126-6708/2001/06/065
Subject category	Particle Physics - Theory
Abstract	We establish T-duality between NS5 branes stuck on an orientifold 8-plane in type I' and an orientifold construction in type IIB with D7 branes intersecting at angles. Two applications are discussed. For one we obtain new brane constructions, realizing field theories with gauge group a product of symplectic factors, giving rise to a large new class of conformal N=1 theories embedded in string theory. Second, by studying a D2 brane probe in the type I' background, we get some information on the still elusive (0,4) linear sigma model describing a perturbative heterotic string on an ADE singularity.