Master Space and Hilbert Series for N=1 Field Theories
arXiv:0902.2109
Abstract
Master Space and Hilbert Series are general tools to study any N=1 supersymmetric field theory. We concentrate on the particular case of N=1 super conformal field theories living on D3 branes at toric Calabi Yau singularities. We start reviewing the topic of branes at singularities, their algebraic geometric and field theory description. We then study the complete moduli spaces for N=1 and generic N number of branes, their different branches, their geometric properties and their symmetries. We study the spectrum of BPS operators both mesonic and baryonic, for N=1 and generic N number of branes, in the field theory and in the dual gravity side and the map between the two. More topics like the study of fermionic BPS operators, the modification of the moduli spaces and the chiral rings under marginal deformations and Seiberg Duality, are also briefly discussed. This paper is a revised version of the author's PhD thesis and it is aimed to give a pedagogical introduction to the use of Master Space and Hilbert Series to investigate supersymmetric field theories.
231 pages, PhD thesis
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