Tinkertoys for Gaiotto duality
| dc.contributor.advisor | Distler, Jacques | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Kaplunovsky, Vadim | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Paban, Sonia | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Fischler, Willy | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Freed, Daniel | en |
| dc.creator | Chacaltana Alarcon, Oscar Chacaltana | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-09-28T16:51:41Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2011-09-28T16:51:41Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-08 | en |
| dc.date.submitted | August 2011 | en |
| dc.date.updated | 2011-09-28T16:51:49Z | en |
| dc.description | text | en |
| dc.description.abstract | We describe a procedure for classifying 4D N=2 superconformal theories of the type introduced by Davide Gaiotto. Any punctured curve, C, on which the 6D (2,0) SCFT is compactified, may be decomposed into 3-punctured spheres, connected by cylinders. The 4D theories, which arise, can be characterized by listing the ``matter" theories corresponding to 3-punctured spheres, the simple gauge group factors, corresponding to cylinders, and the rules for connecting these ingredients together. Different pants decompositions of C correspond to different S-duality frames for the same underlying family of 4D \mathcal{N}=2 SCFTs. We developed such a classification for the A_{N-1} and the D_N series of 6D (2,0) theories. We outline the procedure for general A_{N-1} and D_N, and construct, in detail, the classification through A_4 and D_4, respectively. | en |
| dc.description.department | Physics | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.slug | 2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-4359 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-4359 | en |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.subject | Supersymmetric field theory | en |
| dc.subject | M-theory | en |
| dc.subject | S-duality | en |
| dc.subject | String theory | en |
| dc.subject | Quantum field theory | en |
| dc.subject | Gaiotto duality | en |
| dc.subject | Nilpotent orbits | en |
| dc.subject | Supersymmetry | en |
| dc.title | Tinkertoys for Gaiotto duality | en |
| dc.type.genre | thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.department | Physics | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Physics | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Texas at Austin | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en |