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Compactifying N=(1,0) theories on a torus, with additional fluxes for global symmetries, we obtain N=1 supersymmetric theories in four dimensions. It is shown that for many choices of flux these models are toric quiver gauge theories with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 Ibrahima Bah , Amihay Hanany , Kazunobu Maruyoshi , Shlomo S. Razamat , Yuji Tachikawa , Gabi Zafrir

We discuss 1/2 BPS domain walls in the 3d $\mathcal N=4$ supersymmetric gauge theory which is self-dual under the 3d mirror symmetry. We find that if a BF-type coupling is introduced, invariance of the BPS domain wall under the duality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-11 Minoru Eto , Toshiaki Fujimori , Muneto Nitta

We construct three-dimensional N=1 QED with N_f flavors using branes of type IIB string theory. This theory has a mirror, which can be realized using the S-dual brane configuration. As in examples with more supersymmetry, the Higgs branch…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Martin Gremm , Emanuel Katz

We clarify how mirror symmetry acts on 3d theories with N=2,3 or 4 supersymmetries and non-abelian Chern-Simons terms and then construct many new examples. We identify a new duality, geometric duality, that allows us to generate large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-28 Kristan Jensen , Andreas Karch

We introduce several families of $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ UV boundary conditions in 3d $\mathcal N=4$ gauge theories and study their IR images in sigma-models to the Higgs and Coulomb branches. In the presence of Omega deformations, a UV…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Mathew Bullimore , Tudor Dimofte , Davide Gaiotto , Justin Hilburn

We study supersymmetric field theories in three space-time dimensions doped by various configurations of electric charges or magnetic fluxes. These are supersymmetric avatars of impurity models. In the presence of additional sources such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Anson Hook , Shamit Kachru , Gonzalo Torroba

We study 2d chiral theories arising from 4d N=4 Super-Yang Mills (SYM) with varying coupling tau. The 2d theory is obtained by dimensional reduction of N=4 SYM on a complex curve with a partial topological twist that accounts for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-27 Craig Lawrie , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Timo Weigand

We describe the higher-form and non-invertible symmetries of 4d $\mathcal N= 3$ S-folds using the brane dynamics of their holographic duals. In cases with enhancement to $\mathcal N=4$ supersymmetry, our analysis reproduces the known field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Muldrow Etheredge , Iñaki García Etxebarria , Ben Heidenreich , Sebastian Rauch

We present nontrivial examples of d=3 gauge theories with sixteen and eight supercharges which are infrared dual at special points in the moduli space. This duality is distinct from mirror symmetry. To demonstrate duality we construct the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Micha Berkooz , Anton Kapustin

Mirror symmetry, a three dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ IR duality, has been studied in detail for quiver gauge theories of the $ADE$-type (as well as their affine versions) with unitary gauge groups. The $A$-type quivers (also known as linear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Anindya Dey

We propose new classes of $4d$ $\mathcal{N}\!=\!1$ S-confining gauge theories, with a simple gauge group, rank-two matter and cubic superpotentials. The gauge group can be symplectic, orthogonal or special unitary. In some cases we derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-18 Stephane Bajeot , Sergio Benvenuti , Matteo Sacchi

We consider (3+1)-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric QED with two flavors of fundamental hypermultiplets. This theory supports 1/2-BPS domain walls and flux tubes (strings), as well as their 1/4-BPS junctions. The effective (2+1)-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-27 M. Shifman , A. Yung

We study supersymmetric domain walls in N=1 SU(N) gauge theory with 3 massive adjoint representation chiral multiplets. This theory, known as N=1^*, can be obtained as a massive deformation of N=4 Yang-Mills theory. Following Polchinski and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrew Frey

We consider T[SU(N)] and its mirror, and we argue that there are two more dual frames, which are obtained by adding flipping fields for the moment maps on the Higgs and Coulomb branch. Turning on a monopole deformation in T[SU(N)], and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Francesco Aprile , Sara Pasquetti , Yegor Zenkevich

We study M-theory fivebranes wrapped on Special Lagrangian submanifolds ($\S_n$) in Calabi-Yau three- and fourfolds. When the M5 wraps a four-cycle, the resulting theory is a two-dimensional domain wall embedded in three-dimensional bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ruben Minasian , Dimitrios Tsimpis

We construct 4D $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories on an infinite family of 4D toric manifolds with the topology of connected sums of $S^2 \times S^2$. These theories are constructed through the dimensional reduction along a non-trivial $U(1)$-fiber…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Guido Festuccia , Jian Qiu , Jacob Winding , Maxim Zabzine

We investigate the non-BPS realm of 3d ${\cal N} = 4$ superconformal field theory by uniting the non-perturbative methods of the conformal bootstrap and supersymmetric localization, and utilizing special features of 3d ${\cal N} = 4$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-08 Chi-Ming Chang , Martin Fluder , Ying-Hsuan Lin , Shu-Heng Shao , Yifan Wang

We study the four-dimensional N=2 superconformal field theories that describe D3-branes probing the recently constructed N=2 S-folds in F-theory. We introduce a novel, infinite class of superconformal field theories related to S-fold…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Simone Giacomelli , Carlo Meneghelli , Wolfger Peelaers

We construct the three dimensional mirror theory of SO(2k) and SO(2k+1) gauge groups by using O3-planes. An essential ingredient in constructing the mirror is the splitting of a physical brane (NS-brane or D5-brane) on O3-planes. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Bo Feng , Amihay Hanany

We construct the BPS quivers with superpotential for the 4d N=2 gauge theories with non-simply laced Lie groups (B_n, C_n, F_4 and G_2). The construction is inspired by the BIKMSV geometric engineering of these gauge groups as non-split…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Sergio Cecotti , Michele Del Zotto