Del Zotto, M. orcid.org/0000-0001-8988-0574, Fazzi, M. orcid.org/0000-0001-9625-7991 and Giri, S. orcid.org/0000-0003-0422-7010 (2024) The Higgs branch of heterotic ALE instantons. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 (1). 167. ISSN 1126-6708
Abstract
We begin a study of the Higgs branch of six-dimensional (1, 0) little string theories governing the worldvolumes of heterotic ALE instantons. We give a description of this space by constructing the corresponding magnetic quiver. The latter is a three-dimensional N = 4 quiver gauge theory that fows in the infrared to a fxed point whose quantum corrected Coulomb branches is the Higgs branch of the six-dimensional theory of interest. We present results for both types of heterotic strings, and mostly for C 2/Zk ALE spaces. Our analysis is valid both in the absence and in the presence of small instantons. Along the way, we also describe small SO(32) instanton transitions in terms of the corresponding magnetic quiver, which parallels a similar treatment of the small E8 instanton transitions in the context of the E8 × E8 heterotic string.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Authors. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Superstrings and Heterotic Strings; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; Brane Dynamics in Gauge Theories; Field Theories in Higher Dimensions |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > School of Mathematics and Statistics (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 22 Mar 2024 16:13 |
Last Modified: | 22 Mar 2024 16:14 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/jhep01(2024)167 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:210721 |