| Speaker: | Babak Haghighat (Tsinghua U) |
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| Title: | ADE String Chains and Mirror Symmetry |
| Date (JST): | Tue, May 16, 2017, 13:15 - 14:30 |
| Place: | Seminar Room A |
| Abstract: | 6d superconforaml field theories (SCFTs) are the SCFTs in the highest possible dimension. They can be geometrically engineered in F-theory by compactifying on noncompact elliptic Calabi-Yau manifolds. In this paper we focus on the class of SCFTs whose base geometry is determined by -􀀀2 curves intersecting according to ADE Dynkin diagrams and derive the corresponding mirror Calabi-Yau manifold. The mirror geometry is uniquely determined in terms of the mirror curve which has also an interpretation in terms of the Seiberg-Witten curve of the four-dimensional theory arising from torus compactication. Adding the affine node of the ADE quiver to the base geometry, we connect to recent results on SYZ mirror symmetry for the A case and provide a physical interpretation in terms of little string theory. Our results, however, go beyond this case as our construction naturally covers the D and E cases as well. |
