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hep-th2004★ 132 cited
Evidence for the Strongest Version of the 4d a-Theorem, via a-Maximization Along RG Flows
Edwin Barnes, Ken Intriligator, Brian Wecht +1
In earlier work, we (KI and BW) gave a two line "almost proof" (for supersymmetric RG flows) of the weakest form of the conjectured 4d a-theorem, that a_{IR}<a_{UV}, using our resu…
hep-th2004★ 128 cited
Constructing Nongeometric Vacua in String Theory
Alex Flournoy, Brian Wecht, Brook Williams
In this paper we investigate compactifications of the type II and heterotic string on four-dimensional spaces with nongeometric monodromies. We explicitly construct backgrounds whi…
hep-th2004★ 1 cited
Exploring the 4d Superconformal Zoo
Ken Intriligator, Brian Wecht
We discuss a new constraint for determining the superconformal U(1)_R symmetry of 4d N=1 SCFTs: It is the unique one which locally maximizes a(R) = 3Tr R^3-Tr R. This constraint co…