MSW-type compactifications of 6d $(1,0)$ SCFTs on 4-manifolds

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Main Authors: Chen, Jin, Chen, Zhuo, Cui, Wei, Haghighat, Babak
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author Chen, Jin
Chen, Zhuo
Cui, Wei
Haghighat, Babak
author_facet Chen, Jin
Chen, Zhuo
Cui, Wei
Haghighat, Babak
contents In this work, we study compactifications of 6d $(1,0)$ SCFTs, in particular those of conformal matter type, on Kähler 4-manifolds. We show how this can be realized via wrapping M5 branes on 4-cycles of non-compact Calabi-Yau fourfolds with ADE singularity in the fiber. Such compactifications lead to domain walls in 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories which flow to 2d $\mathcal{N}=(0,2)$ SCFTs. We compute the central charges of such 2d CFTs via 6d anomaly polynomials by employing a particular topological twist along the 4-manifold. Moreover, we study compactifications on non-compact 4-manifolds leading to coupled 3d-2d systems. We show how these can be glued together consistently to reproduce the central charge and anomaly polynomial obtained in the compact case. Lastly, we study concrete CFT proposals for some special cases.
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spellingShingle MSW-type compactifications of 6d $(1,0)$ SCFTs on 4-manifolds
Chen, Jin
Chen, Zhuo
Cui, Wei
Haghighat, Babak
High Energy Physics - Theory
In this work, we study compactifications of 6d $(1,0)$ SCFTs, in particular those of conformal matter type, on Kähler 4-manifolds. We show how this can be realized via wrapping M5 branes on 4-cycles of non-compact Calabi-Yau fourfolds with ADE singularity in the fiber. Such compactifications lead to domain walls in 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories which flow to 2d $\mathcal{N}=(0,2)$ SCFTs. We compute the central charges of such 2d CFTs via 6d anomaly polynomials by employing a particular topological twist along the 4-manifold. Moreover, we study compactifications on non-compact 4-manifolds leading to coupled 3d-2d systems. We show how these can be glued together consistently to reproduce the central charge and anomaly polynomial obtained in the compact case. Lastly, we study concrete CFT proposals for some special cases.
title MSW-type compactifications of 6d $(1,0)$ SCFTs on 4-manifolds
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06943