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This appendix demonstrates an explicit mapping from the E₈ root system to the SU 3) gauge subgroup-illustrating how your E₈-based substrate naturally contains Standard Model symmetries. We provide step-by-step algebraic decompositions and... more
We provide a classification of half-supersymmetric branes in quarter-maximal supergravity theories with scalars parametrising coset manifolds. We show that the results previously obtained for the half-maximal theories give evidence that... more
In this paper we review dynamical generation of field mixing after chiral symmetry breaking. We also study the explicit form of discrete transformations of flavor states in a two-flavor scalar model with field mixing. We find that CPT... more
We analyze non-perturbative corrections to the superpotential of seven-brane gauge theories on type IIB and F-theory warped Calabi-Yau compactifications. We show in particular that such corrections modify the holomorphic Yukawa couplings... more
We construct a class of supersymmetric vacua of type IIB string theory describing systems of three-and seven-branes non-perturbatively completed by brane instantons. The vacua are specified by a set of holomorphic functions defined over a... more
We analyze non-perturbative corrections to the superpotential of seven-brane gauge theories on type IIB and F-theory warped Calabi-Yau compactifications. We show in particular that such corrections modify the holomorphic Yukawa couplings... more
We discuss E3-brane instantons in N = 1 F-theory compactifications to four dimensions and clarify the structure of E3-E3 zero modes for general world-volume fluxes. We consistently incorporate SL(2, Z) monodromies and highlight the... more
Starting with the seminal work of , in , the "Amplituhedron program" was extended to analyzing (planar) amplitudes in massless φ 4 theory. In this paper we show that the program can be further extended to include φ p (p > 4) interactions.... more
We identify the low-energy Kähler potential of warped F-theory/IIB flux compactifications whose light spectrum includes universal, Kähler, axionic and mobile D3-brane moduli. The derivation is based on four-dimensional local... more
We discuss E3-brane instantons in N = 1 F-theory compactifications to four dimensions and clarify the structure of E3-E3 zero modes for general world-volume fluxes. We consistently incorporate SL(2, Z) monodromies and highlight the... more
E3-instantons that generate non-perturbative superpotentials in IIB N = 1 compactifications are more frequent than currently believed. Worldvolume fluxes will typically lift the E3-brane geometric moduli and their fermionic superpartners,... more
We propose a new 5d description of the circle-compactified 6d (D N +4 , D N +4 ) minimal conformal matter theory which can be approached by the 6d N = (1, 0) Sp(N ) gauge theory with N f = 2N + 8 flavors and one tensor multiplet.... more
We propose a new 5d description of the circle-compactified 6d (D N +4 , D N +4 ) minimal conformal matter theory which can be approached by the 6d N = (1, 0) Sp(N ) gauge theory with N f = 2N + 8 flavors and one tensor multiplet.... more
We study the BPS spectrum of the theory on a D3-brane probe in F theory. The BPS states are realized by multi-string configurations in spacetime. Only certain configurations obeying a selection rule give rise to BPS states in the... more
A set S V is a complementary connected dominating set if S is a dominating set of G and the induced subgraph< V -S > is connected. The complementary connected domination number cc (G) is the minimum cardinality taken over all... more
The presence of RR and NS three-form fluxes in type IIB string compactification on a Calabi-Yau orientifold gives rise to a nontrivial superpotential W for the dilaton and complex structure moduli. This superpotential is computable in... more
The presence of RR and NS three-form fluxes in type IIB string compactification on a Calabi-Yau orientifold gives rise to a nontrivial superpotential W for the dilaton and complex structure moduli. This superpotential is computable in... more
We construct Seiberg-Witten curves for 5d N = 1 gauge theories whose Type IIB 5-brane configuration involves an O7-plane and discuss an intriguing relation between theories with an O7 +-plane and those with an O7 −-plane and 8 D7-branes.... more
We prove a Slice Theorem around closed leaves in a singular Riemannian foliation, and we use it to study the C ∞-algebra of smooth basic functions, generalizing to the inhomogeneous setting a number of results by G. Schwarz. In... more
We compute the partition functions of D(-1)D7 systems describing the multi-instanton dynamics of SO(N) gauge theories in eight dimensions. This is the simplest instance of the so called exotic instantons. In analogy with the... more
We study the non-perturbative corrections generated by exotic instantons in U(N) gauge theories in eight and four dimensions. As it was shown previously, the eight-dimensional prepotential can be resummed using a plethystic formula... more
We study 6d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) compactified on a circle with arbitrary twists. The theories obtained after compactification, often referred to as 5d Kaluza-Klein (KK) theories, can be viewed as starting points for RG... more
In this article we offer the interpretation of the fermionic T-duality of the type II superstring theory in double space. We generalize the idea of double space doubling the fermionic sector of the superspace. In such doubled space... more
We find in theories with spontaneous P and CP violation that symmetries needed to set the tree level strong CP phase to zero can also set all non-zero tree level CP violating phases to the maximal value π/2 in the symmetry basis... more
We work out the exact in g s and perturbatively exact in α result for the vector multiplet moduli Kähler potential in a specific N = 2 compactification of F-theory. The well-known α 3 correction is absent, but there is a rich structure of... more
Exploiting the symmetry topological field theory/topological order correspondence (SymTFT/TO), together with the higher-categorical structure of 6D N =(2,0) SCFTs, we prove that the total quantum dimension of the relative condensation... more
We discuss classifications of UV complete supersymmetric theories in six dimensions, and (spin)topological field theories admitting a finite global symmetry and possibly time-reversal symmetry in three dimensions. We also discuss a... more
We study the interpretation of O7+-planes in F-theory, mainly in the context of the six-dimensional models. In particular, we study how to assign gauge algebras and matter content to seven-branes and their intersections, and the... more
We propose quantum states for Little String Theories (LSTs) arising from M5 branes probing A- and D-type singularities. This extends Witten’s picture of M5 brane partition functions as theta functions to this more general setup.... more
We study a general D-dimensional Schwarzschild-type black brane solution of the Einstein-dilaton theory and derive, by using the holographic renormalization, its thermodynamics consistent with the geometric results. Using the membrane... more
In this note, we compute the higher spin spectrum of U(M) k Chern-Simons theory coupled to N flavours of fundamental fermions, in the limit N M with the 't Hooft coupling λ M = N km held fixed, to order M/N. This theory possesses a... more
Values of the viscosities of liquid metals are important in the prediction of fluid flow in many metallurgical manufacturing processes. In this work the friction theory (f-theory) for viscosity modeling is used in conjunction with PC-SAFT... more
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This paper aims to study the birational geometry of log Calabi-Yau pairs (P 3 , D) of coregularity 2, where in this case D is an irreducible normal quartic surface with canonical singularities. We completely classify which toric weighted... more
We argue that a special step in the chain of dualities used in [Tan 2008] implicitly suggests to view Langlands duality as being fundamentally rooted in an eight-dimensional theory on the F-theory 7brane. We give further arguments why... more
Using brane quantization, we study the representation theory of the spherical double affine Hecke algebra of type A 1 in terms of the topological A-model on the moduli space of flat SL(2, C)connections on a once-punctured torus. In... more
A particular two-parameter class of little string theories can be described by M parallel M5-branes probing a transverse affine A N −1 singularity. We previously discussed the duality between the theories labelled by (N, M) and (M, N). In... more
We further explore the correspondence between N = 2 supersymmetric SU (2) gauge theory with four flavors on-deformed backgrounds and conformal field theory, with an emphasis on the-expansion of the partition function natural from a... more
The Riemann-Hilbert approach to studying solutions of supergravity theories allows us to associate spacetime independent monodromy matrices (matrices in the Geroch group) with solutions that effectively only depend on two spacetime... more
The complete supersymmetry algebra for antisymmetric (second-rank) tensors with different supersymmetric versions of the Green-Schwarz mechanism is determined. Working in old-minimal supergravity, the anomalous transformations are derived... more
We calculate the magnetoconductivity of the Weyl semimetal with Z 2 symmetry and chiral anomaly utilizing the recently developed hydrodynamic theory. The system in question will be influenced by magnetic fields connected with ordinary... more
The aim of this note is to give an effective criterion to verify whether a cubic polynomial over a non-Archimedean field has a weak Néron model or not.
A while ago, examples of N =1 vacua in D=6 were constructed as orientifolds of Type IIB string theory compactified on the K3 surface. Among the interesting features of those models was the presence of D5-branes behaving like small... more
We study F-theory duals of six dimensional heterotic vacua in extreme regions of moduli space where the heterotic string is very strongly coupled. We demonstrate how to use orientifold limits of these F-theory duals to regain a... more
In this paper, we study the moduli spaces M δ,c 2 of stable rank-2 vector bundles on non-Kähler elliptic surfaces. Such a surface X admits a holomorphic fibration without a section, whose general fibre is an elliptic curve, and one can... more
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A relation between some improper integrals of complex variable and a ratio of two determinants of n-th order matrices is derived in the presented paper. (A determinant of the Hurwitz matrix is a denominator of this ratio.) Moreover, a... more
In the last years of this eighteen-year grant project, the research efforts have focused mostly on the study of off-shell representations of supersymmetry, both on the worldline and on the worldsheet, i.e., both in supersymmetric quantum... more
We develop a new class of clockwork theories with an augmented structure of the near-neighbour interactions along a one-dimensional closed chain. Such a topology leads to new and attractive features in addition to generating light states... more
We develop a new class of clockwork theories with an augmented structure of the near-neighbour interactions along a one-dimensional closed chain. Such a topology leads to new and attractive features in addition to generating light states... more