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Tinkertoys for the Twisted $E_6$ Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-10-28 v1

Abstract

We study 4D4D N=2\mathcal{N}=2 superconformal field theories that arise as the compactification of the six-dimensional (2,0)(2,0) theory of type E6E_6 on a punctured Riemann surface in the presence of Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 outer-automorphism twists. We explicitly carry out the classification of these theories in terms of three-punctured spheres and cylinders, and provide tables of properties of the Z2\mathbb{Z}_2-twisted punctures. An expression is given for the superconformal index of a fixture with twisted punctures of type E6E_6, which we use to check our identifications. Several of our fixtures have Higgs branches which are isomorphic to instanton moduli spaces, and we find that S-dualities involving these fixtures imply interesting isomorphisms between hyperK\"ahler quotients of these spaces. Additionally, we find families of fixtures for which the Sommers-Achar group, which was previously a Coulomb branch concept, acts non-trivially on the Higgs branch operators.

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@article{arxiv.1501.00357,
  title  = {Tinkertoys for the Twisted $E_6$ Theory},
  author = {Oscar Chacaltana and Jacques Distler and Anderson Trimm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.00357},
  year   = {2022}
}

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52 pages, 56 figures

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