Description
Geometric engineering constructs 5d SCFT from Calabi-Yau manifolds. The most studied case is the toric world, SCFT’s are defined implicitly as UV limits of standard Lagrangian theories like SYM with hypermultiplet matter.
In this talk I will introduce what I call Pagoda Theories. These are defined via M-theory on non-toric CY threefolds. They contain a SYM sector, and a non-conventional matter sector derived from the geometric properties of Reid’s Pagoda varieties.
One of the most intriguing features of these theories, is that this type of ‘Pagoda matter’, once Higgsed, triggers a mechanism that inextricably drives the theory to infinite coupling.
