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Nonabelian Twists of the $D_4$ Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-12-21 v1

Abstract

We study theories of type D4D_4 in class-S, with nonabelian outer-automorphism twists around various cycles of the punctured Riemann surface CC. We propose an extension of previous formul\ae\ for the superconformal index to cover this case and classify the SCFTs corresponding to fixtures (3-punctured spheres). We then go on to study families of SCFTs corresponding to once-punctured tori and 4-punctured spheres. These exhibit new behaviours, not seen in previous investigations. In particular, the generic theory with 4 punctures on the sphere from non-commuting Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 twisted sectors has six distinct weakly-coupled descriptions.

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@article{arxiv.2112.10227,
  title  = {Nonabelian Twists of the $D_4$ Theory},
  author = {Jacques Distler and Behzat Ergun and Ali Shehper},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.10227},
  year   = {2021}
}

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32 pages, 39 figures