Flavor symmetry of 5d SCFTs. Part I. General setup
Lakshya Bhardwaj
Abstract
A bstract A large class of 5 d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) can be constructed by integrating out BPS particles from 6 d SCFTs compactified on a circle. We describe a general method for extracting the flavor symmetry of any 5 d SCFT lying in this class. For this purpose, we utilize the geometric engineering of 5 d $$ \mathcal{N} $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> </mml:math> = 1 theories in M-theory, where the flavor symmetry is encoded in a collection of non-compact surfaces.
Topics & Concepts
PhysicsSymmetry (geometry)FlavorTheoretical physicsClass (philosophy)Field (mathematics)Pure mathematicsGeometryMathematicsComputer scienceMedicineArtificial intelligencePathologyBlack Holes and Theoretical PhysicsParticle physics theoretical and experimental studiesCosmology and Gravitation Theories