Higgsing and twisting of 6d DN gauge theories

Abstract

A bstract We propose Type IIB 5-brane configurations that engineer the 6d $$ \mathcal{N} $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>N</mml:mi> </mml:math> = (1 , 0) SCFTs with SO( N ) gauge symmetry coupled to a single tensor multiplet on a circle, by considering RG flows on Higgs branches of D -type conformal matter theories. We test the brane systems against known Calabi-Yau threefolds for the 6d SCFTs on a circle. In addition we study a new RG flow involving Higgs vevs of scalar operators with Kaluza-Klein momentum along the circle. The new RG flow results in the 5-brane webs for the 6d SCFTs of D N gauge symmetry compactified on a circle with Z 2 outer-automorphism twist.

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