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Duality Defects
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- Gadde, Abhijit
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Gukov, Sergei
- Putrov, Pavel
Abstract
We propose a unified approach to a general class of codimension-2 defects in field theories with non-trivial duality symmetries and discuss various constructions of such "duality defects" in diverse dimensions. In particular, in d=4 we propose a new interpretation of the Seiberg-Witten u-plane by "embedding" it in the physical space-time: we argue that it describes a BPS configuration of two duality defects (at the monopole/dyon points) and propose its vast generalization based on Lefschetz fibrations of 4-manifolds.
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We are grateful to C. Bachas, O. Ganor and I. Runkel for useful discussions. The work of A.G. is supported in part by the John A. McCone fellowship and by DOE Grant DE-FG02-92-ER40701. The work of S.G. is supported in part by DOE Grant DE-FG02-92ER40701. The work of P.P. is supported in part by the Sherman Fairchild scholarship and by NSF Grant PHY-1050729.Attached Files
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- 66610
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- John A. McCone Fellowship
- DE-FG02-92-ER40701
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- Sherman Fairchild Foundation
- PHY-1050729
- NSF
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