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 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 SYM. The theory is a 3d SCFT that can be obtained as a massive deformation of the theory, which is the S-duality interface of 4d SYM. As the main validating tests, we match half-indices and discuss non-trivial consistency conditions when colliding such interfaces.
Cite
@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