Motivated by striped correlated quantum matter, and the recently developed duality between elasticity of a two-dimensional (2D) crystal gauge theory, we derive dual coupled U(1) vector theory for smectic, where disclination is mapped onto fractonic charge, that demonstrate can only move transversely to smectic layers. This also emerges from after Higgs transition corresponding single flavor its...

We study a gauge fixed action of open string field theory expanded around the universal solution, which has been found as an analytic classical solution with one parameter, a. For a > −1/2, we are able to reproduce open string scattering amplitudes in the theory fixed in the Siegel gauge. At a = −1/2, all scattering amplitudes vanish and there is no open string excitation in the gauge fixed the...

We study two-dimensional N = (4, 4) supersymmetric gauge theories which do not have classical Higgs branches, but are believed to have isolated quantum Higgs vacua. We provide arguments for the existence of such vacua based on brane dynamics in string theory and the supersymmetric partition sums of the gauge theories.

We study the enhanced gauge symmetries at constant couplings in the moduli space of the Gimon-Polchinski Orientifold. We show that whenever there is a singularity of

We consider D-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories with 8 super-charges (D≤6, N =8) in the framework of harmonic superspaces. The effective Abelian low-energy action for D=5 contains the free and Chern-Simons terms. Effective N =8 superfield actions for D≤4 can be written in terms of the superpotentials satisfying the superfield constraints and (6−D)-dimensional Laplace equations. The role...

It has been recently proposed to embed the standard model in a conformal gauge theory to resolve the hierarchy problem, and to avoid assuming either grand unification or low-energy supersymmetry. By model building based on string-field duality we show how to maintain the successful prediction of an electroweak mixing angle with sinθ ≃ 0.231 in conformal gauge theories with three chiral families.