(Un)Higgsing the M2-brane

作者：Benishti Nessi^*; He Yang Hui; Sparks James

来源：The Journal of High Energy Physics, 2010, 2010(1): 067.

DOI：10.1007/JHEP01(2010)067

• AdS-CFT Correspondence
• Chern-Simons Theories
• M-Theory

We study various aspects of N = 2 quiver-Chern-Simons theories, conjectured to be dual to M2-branes at toric Calabi-Yau four-fold singularities, under Higgsing. In particular we study in detail the orbifold C-4/Z(2)(3), obtaining a number of different quiver-Chern-Simons phases for this model, and all 18 toric partial resolutions thereof. In the process we develop a general un-Higgsing algorithm that allows one to construct quiver-Chern-Simons theories by blowing up, thus obtaining a plethora of new models. In addition we explain how turning on torsion G-flux non-trivially affects the supergravity dual of Higgsing, showing that the supergravity and field theory analyses precisely match in an example based on the Sasaki-Einstein manifold Y-1,Y-2(CP2).

• 出版日期2010-1