Infrared duality in unoriented Pseudo del Pezzo

We study the orientifold projections of the N=1 superconformal field theories describing D3-branes probing the Pseudo del Pezzo singularities PdP3b and PdP3c. The PdP3c parent theory admits two inequivalent orientifolds. Exploiting a maximization, we find that one of the two has an a-charge smaller...

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Main Authors: Andrea Antinucci, Salvo Mancani, Fabio Riccioni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-12-01
Series:Physics Letters B
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026932030705X
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Summary:We study the orientifold projections of the N=1 superconformal field theories describing D3-branes probing the Pseudo del Pezzo singularities PdP3b and PdP3c. The PdP3c parent theory admits two inequivalent orientifolds. Exploiting a maximization, we find that one of the two has an a-charge smaller than what one would expect from the orientifold projection, which suggests that the theory flows to the fixed point in the infrared. Surprisingly, the value of a coincides with the charge of the unoriented PdP3b and we interpret this as the sign of an infrared duality.
ISSN:0370-2693