Twisted and exceptional Tinkertoys for Gaiotto duality
| dc.contributor.advisor | Distler, Jacques | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Kaplunovsky, Vadim | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Neitzke, Andrew | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Paban, Sonia | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Kilic, Can | en |
| dc.creator | Trimm, Anderson Daniel | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-10-07T22:41:43Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2015-10-07T22:41:43Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-05 | en |
| dc.date.submitted | May 2015 | en |
| dc.date.updated | 2015-10-07T22:41:44Z | en |
| dc.description | text | en |
| dc.description.abstract | A large class of 4d N = 2 superconformal field theories arise as compactifications of a 6d (2, 0) theory of type j = A, D, E on a punctured Riemann surface, C. These theories can be classified by listing the allowed fixtures and cylinders which can occur in a pants decomposition of C, and giving the rules for gluing them together. Different pants decompositions of the same surface give different weakly-coupled presentations of the same underlying SCFT, related by S-duality. An even larger class of theories can be constructed in this way by including "twisted" punctures, which carry a non-trivial action of the outer-automorphism group of j. In this dissertation, we discuss the classification procedure for twisted theories of type D [subscript N] , as well as for twisted and untwisted theories of type E₆. Using these results, we write the Seiberg-Witten solutions for all Spin(n) gauge theories with matter in spinor representations which can be realized by compactifying the (2, 0) theory. We also study a family of SCFTs arising from the twisted A [subscript 2N] series, whose twisted punctures are still not fully-understood. | en |
| dc.description.department | Physics | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.15781/T26K62 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/31583 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.subject | SCFT | en |
| dc.subject | S-duality | en |
| dc.title | Twisted and exceptional Tinkertoys for Gaiotto duality | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.department | Physics | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Physics | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | The University of Texas at Austin | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en |