A Note on the Stringy Embeddings of Certain N = 2 Dualities
arXiv:1207.2477 · doi:10.1139/cjp-2013-0126
Abstract
Seiberg-Witten theory can be embedded in F-theory using D3 branes probing an orientifold geometry. The non-perturbative corrections in the orientifold picture map directly to the instanton corrections in the corresponding gauge theory that convert the classical moduli space to the quantum one. In this short review we argue that the recently proposed class of conformal Gaiotto models may also be embedded in F-theory. The F-theory constructions help us not only to understand the Gaiotto dualities but also to extend to the non-conformal cases with and without cascading behaviors. For the conformal cases, the near horizon geometries in F-theory capture both the UV and IR behaviors succinctly.
6 pages, LaTeX, Based on the talk given by K. D at the Theory Canada Conference June 2012; v2: Typos corrected and references added
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