Twisted circle compactifications of 6d SCFTs
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Bhardwaj, Lakshya; Jefferson, Patrick; Kim, Hee-Cheol; Tarazi, Houri-Christina; Vafa, Cumrun
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We study 6d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) compactified on a circle with arbitrary twists. The theories obtained after compactification, often referred to as 5d Kaluza-Klein (KK) theories, can be viewed as starting points for RG flows to 5d SCFTs. According to a conjecture, all 5d SCFTs can be obtained in this fashion. We compute the Coulomb branch prepotential for all 5d KK theories obtainable in this manner and associate to these theories a smooth local genus one fibered Calabi-Yau threefold in which is encoded information about all possible RG flows to 5d SCFTs. These Calabi-Yau threefolds provide hitherto unknown M-theory duals of F-theory configurations compactified on a circle with twists. For certain exceptional KK theories that do not admit a standard geometric description we propose an algebraic description that appears to retain the properties of the local Calabi-Yau threefolds necessary to determine RG flows to 5d SCFTs, along with other relevant physical data.
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2020-12Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical PhysicsJournal
Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Bhardwaj, Lakshya et al. "Twisted circle compactifications of 6d SCFTs." Journal of High Energy Physics 2020, 12 (December 2020):151 © 2020 The Author(s)
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1029-8479