Five-branes, seven-branes and five-dimensional E<sub>n</sub> field theories
Oliver DeWolfe; Amihay Hanany; Amer Iqbal; Emanuel Katz
Журнал:
Journal of High Energy Physics
Дата:
1999-03-01
Аннотация:
We generalize the (p,q) 5-brane web construction of five-dimensional field theories by introducing (p,q) 7-branes, and apply this construction to theories with a one-dimensional Coulomb branch. The 7-branes render the exceptional global symmetry of these theories manifest. Additionally, 7-branes allow the construction of all E<sub>n</sub> theories up to n = 8, previously not possible in 5-brane configurations. The exceptional global symmetry in the field theory is a subalgebra of an affine symmetry on the 7-branes, which is necessary for the existence of the system. We explicitly determine the quantum numbers of the BPS states of all E<sub>n</sub> theories using two simple geometrical constraints.
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