Nonabelian Twists of the $D_4$ Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2021-12-21 v1
Abstract
We study theories of type in class-S, with nonabelian outer-automorphism twists around various cycles of the punctured Riemann surface . 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 twisted sectors has six distinct weakly-coupled descriptions.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
32 pages, 39 figures