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We show that there is a family of two-dimensional $(0,2)$ SCFTs associated with twisted compactifications of the four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ Leigh-Strassler fixed point on a closed hyperbolic Riemann surface. We calculate the central…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Nikolay Bobev , Krzysztof Pilch , Orestis Vasilakis

We present a new duality between the F-terms of supersymmetric field theories defined in two- and four-dimensions respectively. The duality relates N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories in four dimensions, deformed by an Omega-background in one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Nick Dorey , Timothy J. Hollowood , Sungjay Lee

We consider the problem of computing (irregular) conformal blocks in 2d CFTs whose chiral symmetry algebra is the N=2 superconformal algebra. Our construction uses two ingredients: (i) the relation between the representation theories of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 V. Belavin , Niclas Wyllard

We construct a family of examples of pairs of 4d N=2 SCFTs whose graded Coulomb branch dimensions, Weyl-anomaly coefficients and flavour symmetry algebras and levels coincide, but which are nonetheless distinct SCFTs. The difference…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-01 Jacques Distler , Behzat Ergun , Ali Shehper

We determine the 1-form symmetry group for any 4d N = 2 class S theory constructed by compactifying a 6d N=(2,0) SCFT on a Riemann surface with arbitrary regular untwisted and twisted punctures. The 6d theory has a group of mutually…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-01 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Max Hubner , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

We study the interplay between holomorphic conformal field theory and dualities of 3D topological quantum field theories generalizing the paradigm of level-rank duality. A holomorphic conformal field theory with a Kac-Moody subalgebra…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Clay Cordova , Diego García-Sepúlveda , Jeffrey A. Harvey

We consider a class of 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) which have a large $N$ limit and a semi-classical gravity dual description. Using the quiver-like structure of 6D SCFTs we study a subsector of operators protected from large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-19 Jonathan J. Heckman

2-group symmetries arise when 1-form symmetries and 0-form symmetries of a theory mix with each other under group multiplication. We discover the existence of 2-group symmetries in 5d N=1 abelian gauge theories arising on the (non-extended)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-17 Fabio Apruzzi , Lakshya Bhardwaj , Jihwan Oh , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

Using a recently proposed duality for $U(N)$ supersymmetric QCD (SQCD) in three dimensions with monopole superpotential, in this paper we derive the mirror dual description of $\mathcal{N}=2$ SQCD with unitary gauge group, generalizing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-23 Simone Giacomelli , Noppadol Mekareeya

We study the scalar curvature $R$ of the vector moduli space of 5d $\mathcal{N}=1$ supergravities, obtained by compactifying M-theory on a Calabi--Yau three-fold. We find that $R$ can only diverge at points where some gauge interactions go…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-02 Alejandro Blanco , Fernando Marchesano , Luca Melotti

Compactifying type $A_{N-1}$ 6d ${\cal N}{=}(2,0)$ supersymmetric CFT on a product manifold $M^4\times\Sigma^2=M^3\times\tilde{S}^1\times S^1\times{\cal I}$ either over $S^1$ or over $\tilde{S}^1$ leads to maximally supersymmetric 5d gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-08 Olaf Lechtenfeld , Alexander D. Popov

We propose new confining dualities in $3d$ $\mathcal{N}\!=\!2$ gauge theories with orthogonal gauge groups, with and without monopole superpotentials. Deriving some of those dualities requires a sequence of gauging and Higgsing for a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-12 Sergio Benvenuti , Gabriele Lo Monaco

We consider the torus compactifications with flux of a class of $6d$ $(1,0)$ SCFTs that can be engineered as the low-energy theories on M$5$-branes near an M$9$-plane on a $C^2/Z_2$ singularity. Specifically, we concentrate on the two SCFTs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Gabi Zafrir

We study the recently proposed AdS$_7$/CFT$_6$ dualities for a class of 6d $\mathcal{N} = (1,0)$ theories that flow on the tensor branch to long linear quiver gauge theories. We find a precise agreement in the symmetries and in the spectrum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Oren Bergman , Marco Fazzi , Diego Rodríguez-Gómez , Alessandro Tomasiello

We explore the consequence of generalized symmetries in four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal field theories. First, we classify all possible supersymmetric gauge theories with a simple gauge group that have a nontrivial one-form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-07 Monica Jinwoo Kang , Craig Lawrie , Ki-Hong Lee , Jaewon Song

We use the N = 1 superconformal index to study certain quantum constraints on chiral operators in a class of non-trivial SCFT's.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-26 David Kutasov , Jennifer Lin

We perform a first step analysis toward generalization of the classification of N=4 linear quiver gauge theories by Gaiotto and Witten including Chern-Simons interaction. For this we investigate minimal N=4 U(N_1)_k x U(N_2)_{-k}…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Tomoki Nosaka , Shuichi Yokoyama

We propose a general strategy to build three-dimensional gauge theories with four supercharges which enjoy a supersymmetry enhancement in the IR. The resulting IR SCFTs admit topological twists with particularly nice properties, as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-01 Davide Gaiotto , Heeyeon Kim

We construct several examples of (2+1) dimensional N=2 supersymmetric Chern-Simons theories, whose moduli space is given by non-compact toric Calabi-Yau four-folds, which are not derivable from any (3+1) dimensional CFT. One such example is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-09 Sebastian Franco , Amihay Hanany , Jaemo Park , Diego Rodriguez-Gomez

We begin an investigation of supersymmetric theories based on exceptional groups. The flat directions are most easily parameterized using their correspondence with gauge invariant polynomials. Symmetries and holomorphy tightly constrain the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Steven B. Giddings , John M. Pierre