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We study the Cardy-like limit of the superconformal index of generic $\mathcal{N}=1$ SCFTs with ABCD gauge algebra, providing strong evidence for a universal formula that captures the behavior of the index at finite order in the rank and in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-04 Antonio Amariti , Marco Fazzi , Alessia Segati

The implications of N=1 superconformal symmetry for four dimensional quantum field theories are studied. Superconformal covariant expressions for two and three point functions of quasi-primary superfields of arbitrary spin are found and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-23 Hugh Osborn

We consider ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric U(1) gauge theory in a nonanticommutative ${\cal N}=2$ harmonic superspace with the singlet deformation. We generalize analytic superfield and gauge parameter to the nonanticommutative theory so that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Batool Safarzadeh

The mirror map in the D=3, N=4 supersymmetry connects the left and right SU(2) automorphism groups and also the superfield representations of the corresponding N=4 supermultiplets. The mirror N=4 harmonic superspaces use the harmonics of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-23 B. M. Zupnik

We propose a universal manipulation to obtain Seiberg-like dualities of 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ general quiver gauge theories with unitary, symplectic and orthogonal gauge groups coupled to fundamental and bifundamental matter fields. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-28 Tadashi Okazaki , Douglas J. Smith

We obtain the elliptic curve and the Seiberg-Witten differential for an $N=2$ superconformal field theory which has an $E_8$ global symmetry at the strong coupling point $\tau=e^{\pi i/3}$. The differential has 120 poles corresponding to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Joseph A. Minahan , Dennis Nemeschansky

We uncover a general principle, dubbed c-extremization, which determines the exact R-symmetry of a two-dimensional unitary superconformal field theory with N=(0,2) supersymmetry. To illustrate its utility, we study superconformal theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-03-07 Francesco Benini , Nikolay Bobev

This is the 5th article in the collection of reviews "Exact results on N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories", ed. J. Teschner. We review the supersymmetric localization of $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories on curved backgrounds in four dimensions using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-06 Vasily Pestun

We investigate a simple-sum giant graviton expansion of the superconformal indices of ${\cal N}=2$ superconformal field theories realized on D3-branes probing $7$-brane backgrounds with constant axio-dilation field. The expansion is of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-03 Yosuke Imamura , Shuichi Murayama

A general two-dimensional fractional supersymmetric conformal field theory is investigated. The structure of the symmetries of the theory is studied. Applying the generators of the closed subalgebra generated by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-07 Fardin Kheirandish , Mohammad Khorrami

We study the space of supersymmetric AdS$_5$ solutions of type IIB supergravity corresponding to the conformal manifold of the dual $\mathcal{N}=1$ conformal field theory. We show that the background geometry naturally encodes a generalised…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-25 Anthony Ashmore , Michela Petrini , Edward Tasker , Daniel Waldram

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

Recently there was a substantial progress in understanding of supersymmetric theories (in particular, their BPS spectrum) in space-times of different dimensions due to the exact computation of superconformal indices and partition functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-10 Ilmar Gahramanov , Grigory Vartanov

We investigate the generalized gauge theory which has been proposed previously and show that in two dimensions the instanton gauge fixing of the generalized topological Yang-Mills action leads to a twisted N=2 supersymmetric action. We have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Noboru Kawamoto , Takuya Tsukioka

We suggest IR-dual descriptions for d=3 N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories with gauge groups USp(2N_c) and U(N_c) and matter in the fundamental representation. We relate this duality to the IR duality of d=4 N=1 SQCD theories, and in one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Ofer Aharony

We uncover 2-group symmetries in 6d superconformal field theories. These symmetries arise when the discrete 1-form symmetry and continuous flavor symmetry group of a theory mix with each other. We classify all 6d superconformal field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-05 Fabio Apruzzi , Lakshya Bhardwaj , Dewi S. W. Gould , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

The algebraic structures related with integrable structure of superconformal field theory (SCFT) are introduced. The SCFT counterparts of Baxter's Q-operator are constructed. The fusion-like relations for the transfer-matrices in different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Petr P. Kulish , Anton M. Zeitlin

S-dualities in scale invariant N=2 supersymmetric field theories are derived by embedding those theories in asymptotically free N=2 theories with higher rank gauge groups. S-duality transformations on the coupling of the scale invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Philip C. Argyres

In this paper we revisit the $S^1$ reduction of 4d $\mathcal{N}=1$ gauge theories, considering a double scaling on the radius of the circle and on the real masses arising from the global symmetries in the compactification. We discuss the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-04 Antonio Amariti , Andrea Zanetti

We study the compactification of 4D $\mathcal{N}=3$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) on $S^1$, focusing on the relation between the 4D superconformal index and 3D partition function on the squashed sphere $S^3_b$. Since the center…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-19 Tomoki Nakanishi , Takahiro Nishinaka