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We study how non-invertible self-duality defects arise in theories with a holographic dual. We focus on the paradigmatic example of $\mathfrak{su}(N)$ $\mathcal{N} = 4$ SYM. The theory is known to have non-invertible duality and triality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-02 Andrea Antinucci , Francesco Benini , Christian Copetti , Giovanni Galati , Giovanni Rizi

We analyze three dimensional gauge theories with $Sp$ gauge group. We find that in some regime the theory should be described in terms of a dual theory, very much in the spirit of Seiberg duality in four dimensions. This duality does not…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Andreas Karch

We consider three-dimensional N=2 superconformal field theories on a three-sphere and analyze their free energy F as a function of background gauge and supergravity fields. A crucial role is played by certain local terms in these background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Cyril Closset , Thomas T. Dumitrescu , Guido Festuccia , Zohar Komargodski , Nathan Seiberg

We study the class of four-dimensional N=4 supergravities obtained by gauging the axionic shift and axionic rescaling symmetries. We formulate these theories using the machinery of embedding tensors, characterize the full gauge algebras and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jean-Pierre Derendinger , P. Marios Petropoulos , Nikolaos Prezas

We survey some of the AGT relations between N=2 gauge theories in four dimensions and geometric representations of symmetry algebras of two-dimensional conformal field theory on the equivariant cohomology of their instanton moduli spaces.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-12 Richard J. Szabo

Recent studies (arXiv:1610.07916, arXiv:1711.07921, arXiv:1807.00186) of six-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories that are engineered by a class of toric Calabi-Yau threefolds $X_{N,M}$, have uncovered a vast web of dualities. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-19 Brice Bastian , Stefan Hohenegger

We consider general aspects of N=2 gauge theories in three dimensions, including their multiplet structure, anomalies and non-renormalization theorems. For U(1) gauge theories, we discuss the quantum corrections to the moduli space, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 O. Aharony , A. Hanany , K. Intriligator , N. Seiberg , M. J. Strassler

In this paper we study the reduction of four-dimensional Seiberg duality to three dimensions from a brane perspective. We reproduce the non-perturbative dynamics of the three-dimensional field theory via a T-duality at finite radius and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-04 Antonio Amariti , Davide Forcella , Claudius Klare , Domenico Orlando , Susanne Reffert

We propose a general way to complete supersymmetric theories with operators below the unitarity bound, adding gauge-singlet fields which enforce the decoupling of such operators. This makes it possible to perform all usual computations, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-27 Sergio Benvenuti , Simone Giacomelli

Type IIA brane configurations are used to construct N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories in two dimensions. Using localization of chiral multiplets in ten-dimensional spacetime, supersymmetric non-linear sigma models with target space such as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Amihay Hanany , Kentaro Hori

We present an identity relating the partition function of N=4 supersymmetric QED to that of its dual under mirror symmetry. The identity is a generalized Fourier transform. Many known properties of abelian theories can be derived from this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Anton Kapustin , Matthew J. Strassler

We construct T-duality on K3 surfaces. The T-duality exchanges a 4-brane R-R charge and a 0-brane R-R charge. We study the action of the T-duality on the moduli space of 0-branes located at points of K3 and 4-branes wrapping it. We apply…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Kentaro Hori , Yaron Oz

We study new Seiberg-like dualities for 1d $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories -- that is, supersymmetric gauged quantum mechanics -- with unitary gauge group and (anti)fundamental matter in chiral and fermi multiplets, and with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-03 Cyril Closset , James Wynne

We study N=1 dualities in four dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories in terms of wrapping D 6-branes around 3-cycles of Calabi-Yau threefolds in type IIA string theory. We generalize the recent work of geometrical realization for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Changhyun Ahn

We describe topological gauge theories for which duality properties are encoded by construction. We study them for compact manifolds of dimensions four, eight and two. The fields and their duals are treated symmetrically, within the context…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 L Baulieu , S. L. Shatashvili

We survey and compare recent approaches to the computation of the partition functions and correlators of chiral BPS observables in $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theories on ALE spaces based on quiver varieties and the minimal resolution $X_k$ of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Ugo Bruzzo , Francesco Sala , Richard J. Szabo

We study a class of duality transformations in generalised Z(2) gauge theories and Ising models on two- and three-dimensional compact lattices. The theories are interpreted algebraically in terms of the structure constants of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 N. Yokomizo , P. Teotonio-Sobrinho

We consider N = 2 superconformal field theory with following properties: a) Coulomb branch operators have fractional scaling dimensions, b) there are exact marginal deformations . The weakly coupled gauge theory descriptions are found by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-12 Dan Xie , Shing-Tung Yau

We analyze the phases of supersymmetric chiral gauge theories with an antisymmetric tensor and (anti)fundamental flavors, in the presence of a classically marginal superpotential deformation. Varying the number of flavors that appear in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Nathaniel Craig , Rouven Essig , Anson Hook , Gonzalo Torroba

We provide non-trivial checks of $\mathcal{N}=4, D=3$ mirror symmetry in a large class of quiver gauge theories whose Type IIB (Hanany-Witten) descriptions involve D3 branes ending on orbifold/orientifold 5-planes at the boundary. From the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Anindya Dey , Jacques Distler