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According to the proposal of Hanany and Witten, Coulomb branches of N=4 SU(n) gauge theories in three dimensions are isometric to moduli spaces of BPS monopoles. We generalize this proposal to gauge theories with matter, which allows us to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Sergey A. Cherkis , Anton Kapustin

We present non-trivial checks of three dimensional mirror symmetry for $\mathcal{N}=4$, $\hat{D}_N$ quiver gauge theories with unitary gauge groups using partition function on a round sphere. Type IIB (Hanany-Witten) realization of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-28 Anindya Dey

We study chiral gauge-invariant operators on moduli spaces of G instantons for any classical group G on A-type ALE spaces using Hilbert Series (HS). Moduli spaces of instantons on an ALE space can be realized as Higgs branches of certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-02-10 Anindya Dey , Amihay Hanany , Noppadol Mekareeya , Diego Rodriguez-Gomez , Rak-Kyeong Seong

This is the companion paper of the letter arXiv:2410.15695, containing all the details and series of examples on a 4d mirror symmetry for the class-$\mathcal{S}$ theories which relates the representation theory of the chiral quantization of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-05 Yiwen Pan , Wenbin Yan

We analyze the moduli spaces near N=4 supersymmetric AdS4 vacua of string theory by combining and comparing various approaches: (a) the known exact solutions of Type IIB string theory with localized 5-brane sourcees, (b) the holographically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-02 Constantin Bachas , Massimo Bianchi , Amihay Hanany

We analyze the moduli spaces of Calabi-Yau threefolds and their associated conformally invariant nonlinear sigma-models and show that they are described by an unexpectedly rich geometrical structure. Specifically, the Kahler sector of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 P. S. Aspinwall , B. R. Greene , D. R. Morrison

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 the singularities of the Higgs branch of supersymmetric U(1)^r gauge theories with eight supercharges. We derive new solutions for the moduli space of vacua preserving manifestly the eight supercharges by using a geometric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Belhaj , E. H. Saidi

We study particular families of bad 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ quiver gauge theories, whose Higgs branches consist of many cones. We show the role of a novel brane configuration in realizing the Higgs moduli for each distinct cone. Through brane…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-20 Antoine Bourget , Julius F. Grimminger , Amihay Hanany , Rudolph Kalveks , Marcus Sperling , Zhenghao Zhong

D-branes can end on orbifold planes if the action of the orbifold group includes (-1)^{F_L}. We consider configurations of D-branes ending on such orbifolds and study the low-energy theory on their worldvolume. We apply our results to gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Anton Kapustin

We consider M-theory in the presence of M parallel M5-branes probing a transverse A_{N-1} singularity. This leads to a superconformal theory with (1,0) supersymmetry in six dimensions. We compute the supersymmetric partition function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Babak Haghighat , Can Kozcaz , Guglielmo Lockhart , Cumrun Vafa

The moduli space of instantons on an ALE space is studied using the moduli space of $\mathcal{N}=4$ field theories in three dimensions. For instantons in a simple gauge group $G$ on $\mathbb{C}^2/\mathbb{Z}_n$, the Hilbert series of such an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-17 Noppadol Mekareeya

We consider type IIB $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$ symmetry to relate the partition functions of different 5d supersymmetric Abelian linear quiver Yang-Mills theories in the $\Omega$-background and squashed $S^5$ background. By Higgsing S-dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-12 Fabrizio Nieri , Yiwen Pan , Maxim Zabzine

We study 4d superconformal indices for a large class of N=1 superconformal quiver gauge theories realized combinatorially as a bipartite graph or a set of "zig-zag paths" on a two-dimensional torus T^2. An exchange of loops, which we call a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-07 Masahito Yamazaki

We approach the topic of Classical group nilpotent orbits from the perspective of their moduli spaces, described in terms of Hilbert series and generating functions. We review the established Higgs and Coulomb branch quiver theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-10 Amihay Hanany , Rudolph Kalveks

We study the moduli space of 4d N=1 supersymmetric QCD in the Veneziano limit using Hilbert series. In this limit, the numbers of colours and flavours are taken to be large with their ratio fixed. It is shown that the Hilbert series, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Yang Chen , Niko Jokela , Matti Jarvinen , Noppadol Mekareeya

Partial Isometries are important constructs that help give nontrivial solutions once a simple solution is known. We generalize this notion to Extended Partial Isometries and include operators which have right inverses but no left inverses…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Tewodros Amdeberhan , Arvind Ayyer

We analyze exactly marginal deformations of 3d N=4 Lagrangian gauge theories, especially mixed-branch operators with both electric and magnetic charges. These mixed-branch moduli can either belong to products of electric and magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-17 Ioannis Lavdas , Bruno Le Floch

This paper presents new developments in the study of 3d mirror symmetry and the phase structure of Abelian gauge theories. Previous works identified 3d mirrors for a specific class of theories, termed ``simple" Abelian theories. This work…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-13 Julius F. Grimminger , Amihay Hanany , Deshuo Liu

We study five-dimensional minimally supersymmetric gauge theory compactified on a torus down to three dimensions, and its embedding into string/M-theory using geometric engineering. The moduli space on the Coulomb branch is hyperkaehler…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Babak Haghighat , Stefan Vandoren