Geometric Approach to 3D Interfaces at Strong Coupling

Abstract

We study 4D systems in which parameters of the theory have position dependence in one spatial direction. In the limit where these parameters jump, this can lead to 3D interfaces supporting localized degrees of freedom. A priori, this sort of position dependence can occur at either weak or strong coupling. Demanding time-reversal invariance for U (1) gauge theories with a duality group Γ ⊂ SL(2, Z) leads to interfaces at strong coupling which are characterized by the real component of a modular curve specified by Γ. This provides a geometric method for extracting the electric and magnetic charges of possible localized states. We illustrate these general considerations by analyzing some 4D N = 2 theories with 3D interfaces. These 4D systems can also be interpreted as descending from a six-dimensional theory compactified on a three-manifold generated by a family of Riemann surfaces fibered over the real line. We show more generally that 6D superconformal field theories compactified on such spaces also produce trapped matter by using the known structure of anomalies in the resulting 4D bulk theories.

Singularities of 1/2 Calabi-Yau 4-folds and classification scheme for gauge groups in four-dimensional F-theory

“…F-theory models of elliptic fibrations possessing a global section have been analyzed. Recent studies of such models can be found, e.g., in[4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49]. F-theory model constructions where one or more U(1) factors are formed are discussed, for example, in[4,7,8,10,…”