M5 branes and theta functions

by Haghighat Babak (Tsinghua University, Beijing)

Tuesday 20 Aug 2019, 14:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

4/2-037 - TH meeting room (CERN)

We propose quantum states for Little String Theories (LSTs) arising from M5 branes probing A- and D-type singularities. This extends Witten's picture of M5 brane partition functions as theta functions to this more general setup. Compactifying the world-volume of the five-branes on a two-torus, we find that the corresponding theta functions are sections of line bundles over complex 4-tori. This formalism allows us to derive Seiberg-Witten curves for the resulting four-dimensional theories. Along the way, we prove a duality for LSTs observed by Iqbal, Hohenegger and Rey.