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We present a set of equations for a 4D Killing spinor which guarantees the Seiberg-Witten theories on a curved background to be supersymmetric. The equations involve an SU(2) gauge field and some auxiliary fields in addition to the metric.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Naofumi Hama , Kazuo Hosomichi

We study the compactification of the 6d ${\cal N}=(2,0)$ SCFT on the product of a Riemann surface with flux and a circle. On the one hand, this can be understood by first reducing on the Riemann surface, giving rise to 4d ${\cal N}=1$ and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Shlomo S. Razamat , Brian Willett

We derive explicit formulae to compute the $a$ and $c$ central charges of four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) directly from Coulomb branch related quantities. The formulae apply at arbitrary rank. We also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Mario Martone

We study conformal field theory in $d=1$ space-time dimensions. We derive a dispersion relation for the 4-point correlation function of identical bosons and fermions, in terms of the double discontinuity. This extends the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-10 Dean Carmi , Sudip Ghosh , Trakshu Sharma

We calculate the Witten index for 3d supersymmetric Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theories with matter. For N=2 theories, our results coincide with the results of recent [1]. We compare the situation in 3d to that in 4d N = 1 theories with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 A. V. Smilga

We propose correspondences between 4d quantum field theories with N=2,1,0 (super)conformal invariance and Type IIB string theory on various orbifolds. We argue using the spacetime string theory, and check using the beta functions (exactly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-07 S. Kachru , E. Silverstein

Three-dimensional N = 4 supersymmetric quantum field theories admit two topological twists, the Rozansky-Witten twist and its mirror. Either twist can be used to define a supersymmetric compactification on a Riemann surface and a corre-…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-20 Davide Gaiotto

Making use of the exact solutions of the $N=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories we construct new classes of superconformal field theories (SCFTs) by fine-tuning the moduli parameters and bringing the theories to critical points. SCFTs we have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-05 Tohru Eguchi , Kentaro Hori , Katsushi Ito , Sung-Kil Yang

We propose an equivalence of the partition functions of two different 3d gauge theories. On one side of the correspondence we consider the partition function of 3d SL(2,R) Chern-Simons theory on a 3-manifold, obtained as a punctured Riemann…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-05 Yuji Terashima , Masahito Yamazaki

We use localization techniques to calculate the Euclidean partition functions for $\mathcal{N}=1$ theories on four-dimensional manifolds $M$ of the form $S^1 \times M_3$, where $M_3$ is a circle bundle over a Riemann surface. These are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Tatsuma Nishioka , Itamar Yaakov

We describe an approach to classifying four-dimensional conformal field theories with N=2 supersymmetry and a Coulomb branch of vacua with the topology of the complex plane. We also discuss the Higgs/mixed branches and conformal/flavor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-03 Yongchao Lü

This is the first in a series of papers on the search for the 2D CFT description of a large class of 4D $\mathcal{N} = 1$ gauge theories. Here, we identify the 2D CFT symmetry algebra and its representations, namely the conformal blocks of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Vladimir Mitev , Elli Pomoni

We propose a correction to one of the elliptic blocks in the NS sector of 2d $\mathcal N = 1$ superconformal field theories. We analyze the 4-point block in the pillow geometry to demonstrate the necessity of the correction and verify the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-09 Kangning Liu

We calculate and study the general superconformal index for the 6d U(N) (2,0) theory with four chemical potentials, from the indices of gauge theories on CP^2 x R. Our index agrees with the large N supergravity index on AdS_7 x S^4 at low…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-30 Hee-Cheol Kim , Seok Kim , Sung-Soo Kim , Kimyeong Lee

We study general properties of the mapping between 5$d$ and 4$d$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) under both twisted circle compactification and tuning of local relevant deformation and CB moduli. After elucidating in generality when a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-01 Mario Martone , Gabi Zafrir

Detailed studies of four dimensional N=2 superconformal field theories (SCFT) defined by isolated complete intersection singularities are performed: we compute the Coulomb branch spectrum, Seiberg-Witten solutions and central charges. Most…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-22 Yifan Wang , Dan Xie , Stephen S. -T. Yau , Shing-Tung Yau

Three-dimensional $\mathcal{N} = 4$ superconformal field theories contain 1d topological sectors consisting of twisted linear combinations of half-BPS local operators that can be inserted anywhere along a line. After a conformal mapping to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Pieter Bomans , Silviu Pufu

The Schur limit of the superconformal index of a four-dimensional N = 2 superconformal field theory encodes rich physical information about the protected spectrum of the theory. For a Lagrangian model, this limit of the index can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-18 Yiwen Pan , Wolfger Peelaers

In this paper we study supersymmetric field theories on an AdS_p x S^q space-time that preserves their full supersymmetry. This is an interesting example of supersymmetry on a non-compact curved space. The supersymmetry algebra on such a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 Ofer Aharony , Micha Berkooz , Avner Karasik , Talya Vaknin

We consider supersymmetric surface defects in compactifications of the $6d$ minimal $(D_{N+3},D_{N+3})$ conformal matter theories on a punctured Riemann surface. For the case of $N=1$ such defects are introduced into the supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-27 Belal Nazzal , Anton Nedelin , Shlomo S. Razamat