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Half-BPS Boundaries and the RG-Wall of $\mathcal{N}=2$ $SU(N)$ SYM

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-06-29 v1

Abstract

We identify the 3d theory that realizes the RG-wall interface of 4d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 SU(N)SU(N) Super-Yang-Mills, interpolating between the UV Lagrangian and the IR Seiberg-Witten effective description. The same theory also describes the low-energy boundary condition that corresponds to giving half-BPS Dirichlet boundary condition in the Lagrangian description of 4d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 SU(N)SU(N) SYM. The theory is a 3d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 SCFT that can be obtained as a massive deformation of the T[SU(N)]T[SU(N)] theory, which is the S-duality interface of 4d N=4\mathcal{N}=4 SU(N)SU(N) SYM. As the main validating tests, we match half-indices and discuss non-trivial consistency conditions when colliding such interfaces.

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@article{arxiv.2606.30731,
  title  = {Half-BPS Boundaries and the RG-Wall of $\mathcal{N}=2$ $SU(N)$ SYM},
  author = {Riccardo Comi and Simone Rota},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.30731},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

77 pages + Appendix, with many figures