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3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ minimal SCFTs from Wrapped M5-branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-09-13 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study CFT data of 3-dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs) arising from wrapped two M5-branes on closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Via so-called 3d/3d correspondence, central charges of these SCFTs are related to a SL(2)SL(2) Chern-Simons (CS) invariant on the 3-manifolds. We give a rigorous definition of the invariant in terms of resurgence theory and a state-integral model for the complex CS theory. We numerically evaluate the central charges for several closed 3-manifolds with small hyperbolic volume. The computation suggests that the wrapped M5-brane systems give infinitely many discrete SCFTs with small central charges. We also analyze these `minimal' SCFTs in the eye of 3d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 superconformal bootstrap.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1610.09259,
  title  = {3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ minimal SCFTs from Wrapped M5-branes},
  author = {Jin-Beom Bae and Dongmin Gang and Jaehoon Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.09259},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

32 pages, 7 figures; v2: minor corrections, references added

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