Journal of High Energy Physics (Sep 2023)

Multi-planarizable quivers, orientifolds, and conformal dualities

  • Antonio Amariti,
  • Massimo Bianchi,
  • Marco Fazzi,
  • Salvo Mancani,
  • Fabio Riccioni,
  • Simone Rota

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2023)094
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2023, no. 9
pp. 1 – 49

Abstract

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Abstract We study orientifold projections of families of four-dimensional N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 1 toric quiver gauge theories. We restrict to quivers that have the unusual property of being associated with multiple periodic planar diagrams which give rise, in general, to inequivalent models. A suitable orientifold projection relates a subfamily of the latter by conformal duality. That is, there exist exactly marginal deformations that connect the projected models. The deformations take the form of a sign flip in some of the superpotential interactions, similarly to the β-deformation of N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 SYM. Our construction generalizes previous results on the orientifold projections of the PdP3b and PdP3c singularities.

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