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Comments on the twisted punctures of $A_\text{even}$ class S theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-08-01 v2

Abstract

We point out that the USp\text{USp} symmetry associated to a full twisted puncture of a class S theory of type AevenA_\text{even} has the global anomaly associated to π4(USp)=Z2\pi_4(\text{USp})=\mathbb{Z}_2. We discuss manifestations of this fact in the context of the superconformal field theory R2,2NR_{2,2N} introduced by Chacaltana, Distler and Trimm. For example, we find that this theory can be thought of as a natural ultraviolet completion of an infrared-free SO(2N+1)\text{SO}(2N+1) gauge theory with 2N2N flavors, whose USp(4N)\text{USp}(4N) symmetry clearly has the global anomaly.

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@article{arxiv.1804.09143,
  title  = {Comments on the twisted punctures of $A_\text{even}$ class S theory},
  author = {Yuji Tachikawa and Yifan Wang and Gabi Zafrir},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.09143},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

14 pages, 5 figures; v2: minor changes