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A 3d topological sigma model describing maps from a 3-manifold Y to a Calabi-Yau 3-fold M is introduced. As the model is topological, we can choose an arbitrary metric on M. Upon scaling up the metric, the path integral by construction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Imaanpur

We consider type IIB $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$ symmetry to relate the partition functions of different 5d supersymmetric Abelian linear quiver Yang-Mills theories in the $\Omega$-background and squashed $S^5$ background. By Higgsing S-dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-12 Fabrizio Nieri , Yiwen Pan , Maxim Zabzine

We introduce a new duality for $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric gauged matrix models. This $0d$ duality is an order 4 symmetry, namely an equivalence between four different theories, hence we call it Quadrality. Our proposal is motivated by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-14 Sebastian Franco , Sangmin Lee , Rak-Kyeong Seong , Cumrun Vafa

We realize four-dimensional N=2 superconformal quiver gauge theories with alternating SO and USp gauge groups as compactifications of the six-dimensional D_N theory with defects. The construction can be used to analyze infinitely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-06 Yuji Tachikawa

We propose a mirror symmetry for 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) compactified on a circle with finite size. The mirror symmetry involves vertex operator algebra (VOA) describing the Schur sector (containing Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 Peng Shan , Dan Xie , Wenbin Yan

This paper presents new developments in the study of 3d mirror symmetry and the phase structure of Abelian gauge theories. Previous works identified 3d mirrors for a specific class of theories, termed ``simple" Abelian theories. This work…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-13 Julius F. Grimminger , Amihay Hanany , Deshuo Liu

We propose a new description of 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories which do not admit conventional Lagrangians. Given a quiver $Q$ and a mutation sequence $m$ on it, we define a 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ theory $\mathcal{T}[(Q,m)]$ in such a way that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-02-04 Yuji Terashima , Masahito Yamazaki

One of the hallmarks of 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) is that on a partial tensor branch, all known theories resemble quiver gauge theories with links comprised of 6D conformal matter, a generalization of weakly coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 Fabio Apruzzi , Jonathan J. Heckman , David R. Morrison , Luigi Tizzano

Twisted compactification of the 6d N=(2,0) theories on a punctured Riemann surface give a large class of 4d N=1 and N=2 gauge theories, called class S. We argue that nonperturbative dynamics of class S theories are described by 5d maximal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Kazuya Yonekura

We propose a dictionary between geometry of triangulated 3-manifolds and physics of three-dimensional N=2 gauge theories. Under this duality, standard operations on triangulated 3-manifolds and various invariants thereof (classical as well…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-23 Tudor Dimofte , Davide Gaiotto , Sergei Gukov

We construct M-theory curves associated with brane configurations of SU(N), SO(N) and $Sp(2N)$ 5d supersymmetric gauge theories compactified on a circle. From the curves we can account for all the existing different SU(N) field theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 A. Brandhuber , N. Itzhaki , J. Sonnenschein , S. Theisen , S. Yankielowizc

We consider 3d N=2 non-abelian Hanany-Witten brane setups with chiral flavor symmetry. We propose that the associated field theories are quivers with improved bifundamentals, instead of standard bifundamentals. The improved bifundamental is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-31 Sergio Benvenuti , Riccardo Comi , Sara Pasquetti

Building on recent progress in the study of compactifications of $6d$ $(1,0)$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) on Riemann surfaces to $4d$ $\mathcal{N}=1$ theories, we initiate a systematic study of compactifications of $5d$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-11 Matteo Sacchi , Orr Sela , Gabi Zafrir

We consider a natural generalization of trinification to theories with 3N SU(3) gauge groups. These theories have a simple moose representation and a gauge boson spectrum that can be interpreted via the deconstruction of a 5D theory with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Christopher D. Carone

We study 6d N=(2,0) theory of type SU(N) compactified on Riemann surfaces with finite area, including spheres with fewer than three punctures. The Higgs branch, whose metric is inversely proportional to the total area of the Riemann…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-21 Davide Gaiotto , Gregory W. Moore , Yuji Tachikawa

Three-dimensional N=2 superconformal field theories are constructed by compactifying M5-branes on three-manifolds. In the infrared the branes recombine, and the physics is captured by a single M5-brane on a branched cover of the original…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-16 Clay Cordova , Sam Espahbodi , Babak Haghighat , Ashwin Rastogi , Cumrun Vafa

We study four dimensional $N=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories on $R^3 \times S^1$ with a circle of radius $R$. They interpolate between four dimensional gauge theories ($R=\infty$) and $N=4$ supersymmetric gauge theories in three dimensions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Nathan Seiberg , Edward Witten

We discuss a 4d Lagrangian descriptions, across dimensions IR dual, of compactifications of the 6d $(\text{D},\text{D})$ minimal conformal matter theory on a sphere with arbitrary number of punctures and a particular value of flux as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-31 Hee-Cheol Kim , Shlomo S. Razamat

Gauge theories in four dimensions can exhibit interesting low energy phenomena, such as infrared enhancements of global symmetry. We explore a class of 4d N=1 gauge theories arising from a construction that is motivated by duality walls in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Ivan Garozzo , Noppadol Mekareeya , Matteo Sacchi , Gabi Zafrir

We propose a method for constructing pairs of nonsupersymmetric gauge theories related by S-duality. Starting from a known S-duality of supersymmetric theories realized on the worldvolume of D3 branes in type IIB string theory, a new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-22 Anson Hook , Gonzalo Torroba