Branes, orientifolds and chiral gauge theories

Shmuel Elitzur; Amit Giveon; David Kutasov; David Tsabar

doi:10.1016/s0550-3213(98)00165-5

Branes, orientifolds and chiral gauge theories

Shmuel Elitzur^*, Amit Giveon, David Kutasov, David Tsabar

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Racah Institute of Physics

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Abstract

We discuss some aspects of the physics of branes in the presence of orientifolds and the corresponding world-volume gauge dynamics. We show that at strong coupling orientifolds sometimes turn into bound states of orientifolds and branes, and give a world-sheet argument for the flip of the sign of an orientifold plane split into two disconnected parts by an NS5-brane. We also describe the moduli space of vacua of N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theories with symplectic and orthogonal gauge groups, and analyze a set of four-dimensional N = 1 supersymmetric gauge theories with chiral matter content using branes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	251-268
Number of pages	18
Journal	Nuclear Physics B
Volume	5241
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/s0550-3213(98)00165-5
State	Published - 27 Jul 1998

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Funding Information:
We thank J. Lykken, Y. Oz, O. Pelc, A. Schwimmer and S. Trivedi for discussions. This work is supported in part by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities -Centers of Excellence Program. The work of A.G. is supported in part by BSF - American-Israel Bi-National Science Foundation. S.E. and A.G. thank the Einstein Center at the Weizmann Institute for partial support. D.K. is supported in part by a DOE OJI grant. A.G. thanks the EFI at the University of Chicago, where part of this work was done, for its warm hospitality.

Keywords

Brane
Chiral
Gauge
Orientifold
String

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