| dc.contributor.author | Bhardwaj, Lakshya | |
| dc.contributor.author | Jefferson, Patrick | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kim, Hee-Cheol | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tarazi, Houri-Christina | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vafa, Cumrun | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-04T15:31:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-03-04T15:31:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-12 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2020-06 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1029-8479 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130079 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC | en_US |
| dc.relation.isversionof | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2020)151 | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_US |
| dc.source | Springer Berlin Heidelberg | en_US |
| dc.title | Twisted circle compactifications of 6d SCFTs | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Bhardwaj, Lakshya et al. "Twisted circle compactifications of 6d SCFTs." Journal of High Energy Physics 2020, 12 (December 2020):151 © 2020 The Author(s) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics | en_US |
| dc.relation.journal | Journal of High Energy Physics | en_US |
| dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en_US |
| dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
| eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
| dc.date.updated | 2020-12-27T05:07:02Z | |
| dc.language.rfc3066 | en | |
| dc.rights.holder | The Author(s) | |
| dspace.embargo.terms | N | |
| dspace.date.submission | 2020-12-27T05:07:02Z | |
| mit.journal.volume | 2020 | en_US |
| mit.journal.issue | 12 | en_US |
| mit.license | PUBLISHER_CC | |
| mit.metadata.status | Complete | |
