Orbifold Matrix Model

TL;DR

This paper analyzes a matrix model for type IIB superstring theory on a {f C}^3/{f Z}_3 orbifold, exploring its supersymmetry, effective actions, and connections to supergravity and the IKKT matrix model.

Contribution

It provides a detailed one-loop analysis of the orbifold matrix model, revealing its relation to supergravity interactions and its reduction to the IKKT model at large Higgs VEVs.

Findings

Effective action matches supergravity interactions in Higgs branch.

Coulomb branch dynamics relate to twisted sector super Yang-Mills.

Large Higgs VEV reduces to the IKKT matrix model.

Abstract

We study a matrix model describing type IIB superstring in orbifold backgrounds. We particularly consider a {\bf C}^3/{\bf Z}_3 orbifold model whose six dimensional transverse space is orbifolded by {\bf Z}_3 discrete symmetry. This model is chiral and has d=4 {\cal N}=1 supersymmetry of Yang-Mills type as well as an inhomogeneous supersymmetry specific to matrix models. We calculate one-loop effective action around some backgrounds, and the result can be interpreted as interactions mediated by massless particles in IIB supergravity in orbifold background, if the background is in the Higgs branch. If the background is in the Coulomb branch, the dynamics is governed by the reduced model of d=4 super Yang-Mills theory, which might be interpreted as exchange of massless particles in the twisted sector. But the perturbative calculation cannot reproduce the supergravity result. We also show that this model with a large Higgs vacuum expectation value becomes IIB (IKKT) matrix model.