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$\mathcal{N}=1$ Curves on Generalized Coulomb Branches

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-03-08 v1

Abstract

We study the low energy effective dynamics of four-dimensional N=1\mathcal{N}=1 supersymmetric gauge theories of class Sk\mathcal{S}_k on the generalized Coulomb branch. The low energy effective gauge couplings are naturally encoded in algebraic curves X\mathcal{X}, which we derive for general values of the couplings and mass deformations. We then recast these IR curves X\mathcal{X} to the UV or M-theory form C\mathcal{C}: the punctured Riemann surfaces on which the six-dimensional N=(1,0)\mathcal{N}=(1,0) Ak1{A_{k-1}} SCFTs are compactified giving the class Sk\mathcal{S}_k theories. We find that the UV curves C\mathcal{C} and their corresponding meromorphic differentials take the same form as those for their mother four-dimensional N=2\mathcal{N}=2 theories of class S\mathcal{S}. They have the same poles, and their residues are functions of all the exactly marginal couplings and the bare mass parameters which we can compute exactly.

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@article{arxiv.2111.14543,
  title  = {$\mathcal{N}=1$ Curves on Generalized Coulomb Branches},
  author = {Thomas Bourton and Elli Pomoni and Xinyu Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.14543},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

22 pages; to be published in Universe

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