Semi-doubled Gauged Linear Sigma Model for Five-branes of Codimension Two

TL;DR

This paper develops a supersymmetric gauge theory model that captures the T-duality relationships among various five-branes of codimension two, incorporating quantum corrections and extending previous models.

Contribution

It introduces a semi-doubled GLSM with complex superfields that models five-branes of codimension two and demonstrates T-duality at the UV level, extending prior work.

Findings

Constructed a GLSM for five-branes of codimension two.

Confirmed T-duality transformations at finite gauge couplings.

Mapped quantum vortex corrections to string instanton effects.

Abstract

We establish a double dualization in two-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theory. We construct a gauged linear sigma model (GLSM) which contains a complex twisted linear superfield coupled to two sets of Abelian vector superfields. In the IR regime, the GLSM provides a string sigma model whose target spaces are a defect NS5-brane, a Kaluza-Klein vortex and an exotic $5^2_2$-brane. All of them are five-branes of codimension two and are related by T-duality. This model is a natural extension of the GLSM proposed by Tong which gives a sigma model for an H-monopole, i.e., a smeared NS5-brane of codimension three. This is also regarded as an alternative system of the GLSM for exotic five-branes proposed by the present authors. In this analysis, we confirm that the T-duality transformation procedure in terms of the complex twisted linear superfield is applicable to dualize both the real and imaginary parts of the twisted chiral superfield even at the UV level, beyond the IR limit. This indicates that the T-duality transformations at finite gauge couplings can be performed in terms of reducible superfields in the same way as irreducible (twisted) chiral superfields. Furthermore, we study quantum vortex corrections to the GLSM at the UV level. In the IR limit, these corrections are mapped to string worldsheet instanton corrections to the five-branes of codimension two. The result completely agrees with those in double field theory analysis.