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A "Lagrangian" for the E7 Superconformal Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-07-04 v2

Abstract

We find an N=1 gauge theory that flows to the rank-one N=2 superconformal field theory with E7E_7 flavor symmetry. We first obtain a Lagrangian description for the R0,NR_{0, N} theory, which appears in the S-dual description of the SU(N) gauge theory with 2N fundamental hypermultiplets. This is a straightforward generalization of the proposed Lagrangian description for the E6E_6 theory. The E7E_7 theory is then obtained via partial Higgsing of the R0,4R_{0, 4} theory. From this Lagrangian description, we compute the full superconformal index. We also consider twisted dimensional reduction on S2S^2 to obtain N=(0, 4) theory for the E7E_7 one instanton string and compute its elliptic genus.

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@article{arxiv.1802.05268,
  title  = {A "Lagrangian" for the E7 Superconformal Theory},
  author = {Prarit Agarwal and Kazunobu Maruyoshi and Jaewon Song},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.05268},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

13 pages + appendices, v2: typos corrected

R2 v1 2026-06-23T00:22:44.900Z