The braneology of 3D dualities

Antonio Amariti (1) , Davide Forcella (2, 3) , Claudius Klare (4) , Domenico Orlando (1) , Susanne Reffert (5, 6)

1 LPTENS - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure]
2 Physique Théorique et Mathématique
3 International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry [Brussels]
4 IPHT - Institut de Physique Théorique - UMR CNRS 3681
5 CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research
6 UNIBE - Universität Bern [Bern]

In this paper we study the reduction of four-dimensional Seiberg duality to three dimensions from a brane perspective. We reproduce the non-perturbative dynamics of the three-dimensional field theory via a T-duality at finite radius and the action of Euclidean D-strings. In this way we also overcome certain issues regarding the brane description of Aharony duality. Moreover we apply our strategy to more general dualities, such as toric duality for M2-branes and dualities with adjoint matter fields.

Domains: Physics [physics]; High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th]

Antonio Amariti, Davide Forcella, Claudius Klare, Domenico Orlando, Susanne Reffert. The braneology of 3D dualities. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 2015, 48 (26), ⟨10.1088/1751-8113/48/26/265401⟩. ⟨cea-01336464⟩