期刊
LETTERS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
卷 106, 期 6, 页码 765-786出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11005-016-0839-5
关键词
higher-dimensional conformal field theory; defects
资金
- NSF [PHY-1067976]
- NSF GRF [DGE-1144152]
- DOE [DE-FG02-92ER-40697]
We use the F-theory realization of 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) to study the corresponding spectrum of stringlike, i.e., surface defects. On the tensor branch, all of the stringlike excitations pick up a finite tension, and there is a corresponding lattice of string charges, as well as a dual lattice of charges for the surface defects. The defect group is data intrinsic to the SCFT and measures the surface defect charges which are not screened by dynamical strings. When non-trivial, it indicates that the associated theory has a partition vector rather than a partition function. We compute the defect group for all known 6D SCFTs, and find that it is just the abelianization of the discrete subgroup of U(2) which appears in the classification of 6D SCFTs realized in F-theory. We also explain how the defect group specifies defining data in the compactification of a (1, 0) SCFT.
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