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We derive a $U$-duality invariant formula for the degeneracies of BPS multiplets in a D1-D5 system for toroidal compactification of the type II string. The elliptic genus for this system vanishes, but it is found that BPS states can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-07 Juan Maldacena , Gregory Moore , Andrew Strominger

We review some recent developments in the 6 dimensional (2, 0) superconformal field theories, focusing on their BPS spectra in the Coulomb and symmetric phases computed by various Witten indices. We shall discuss the instanton partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Seok Kim , Kimyeong Lee

We determine the higher symmetries of 5d SCFTs engineered from M-theory on a $\mathbb{C}^3 / \Gamma$ background for $\Gamma$ a finite subgroup of $SU(3)$. This resolves a longstanding question as to how to extract this data when the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Michele Del Zotto , Jonathan J. Heckman , Shani Nadir Meynet , Robert Moscrop , Hao Y. Zhang

We study surface defects in 4d $\mathcal{N}=1$ $SU(N)$ superconformal gauge theories of class $\mathcal{S}_k$ obtained from the 6d (1,0) theories of type $A_{N-1}$, which are worldvolume theories on $N$ M5-branes at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-01 Yuto Ito , Yutaka Yoshida

To construct a BPS algebra with representations furnished by n-dimensional partitions, the first step is to find the eigenvalues of the Cartan operators acting on them. The generating function of the eigenvalues is called the charge…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Shang Xiang , Hao Feng , Keyou Zhuo , Tian-Shun Chen , Kilar Zhang

We study the spectrum of BPS particles on the Coulomb branch of five-dimensional superconformal field theories (5d SCFTs) compactified on a circle. By engineering these theories in M-theory on ${\mathbf X} \times S^1 $, for ${\mathbf X}$ an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-03 Cyril Closset , Michele Del Zotto

We study the central charges and levels of 2d $\mathcal{N}=(0,4)$ superconformal field theories that are dual to four- and five-dimensional BPS black holes in compactifications of type IIB string theory on a K3 surface. They arise from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-05 Christopher Couzens , Huibert het Lam , Kilian Mayer , Stefan Vandoren

This is the 9th article in the collection of reviews "Exact results on N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories", ed. J.Teschner. We review the exact computations in 3D N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories on the round or squashed $S^3$ and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-07 Kazuo Hosomichi

We use the 5-sphere partition functions of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories to explore the (2,0) superconformal theory on S^5 x S^1. The 5d theories can be regarded as Scherk-Schwarz reductions of the 6d theory along the circle. In a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Hee-Cheol Kim , Seok Kim

The dynamics of a stack of M5 branes probing a transverse multi-centered Taub-NUT space are described by a class of 6d $\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ superconformal field theories known as the M-string orbifold SCFTs. We determine the equivariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-18 Daniele Ceppi , Guglielmo Lockhart

Using topological string techniques, we compute BPS counting functions of 5d gauge theories which descend from 6d superconformal field theories upon circle compactification. Such theories are naturally organized in terms of nodes of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Zhihao Duan , David Jaramillo Duque , Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor

Exact BPS solutions of multi-walls are obtained in five-dimensional supergravity. The solutions contain 2n parameters similarly to the moduli space of the corresponding global SUSY models and have a smooth limit of vanishing gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Minoru Eto , Shigeo Fujita , Masashi Naganuma , Norisuke Sakai

We investigate 3d $\mathscr{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories on $S^1 \times S^2$ and the corresponding 2d effective field theories arising in the limit of small ratio of radii, $\beta=R_{S^1}/R_{S^2}\to 0$. We evaluate the exact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-31 Antonio Amariti , Jun Nian , Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas , Alessia Segati

In $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM with $U(N)$ gauge symmetry, the multiplicity of half-BPS states with fixed dimension can be labelled by Young diagrams and can be distinguished using conserved charges corresponding to Casimirs of $U(N)$. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Garreth Kemp , Sanjaye Ramgoolam

We present a trace formula for an index over the spectrum of four dimensional superconformal field theories on $S^3 \times $ time. Our index receives contributions from states invariant under at least one supercharge and captures all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-07 Justin Kinney , Juan Maldacena , Shiraz Minwalla , Suvrat Raju

We establish the conditions for supersymmetric domain wall solutions to N=4 gauged supergravity in five dimensions. These read as BPS first-order equations for the warp factor and the scalar fields, driven by a superpotential and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Davide Cassani , Gianguido Dall'Agata , Anton F. Faedo

For SCFTs with an $SU(2)$ R-symmetry, we determine the superconformal blocks that contribute to the four-point correlation function of a priori distinct half-BPS superconformal primaries as an expansion in terms of the relevant bosonic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-05 Florent Baume , Michael Fuchs , Craig Lawrie

We study the Hamiltonian index of $\frac{1}{16}$-BPS operators in 4d $\mathcal{N}=4$ U(N) super Yang-Mills (SYM) theory numerically for $N=2\,,\dots,10$. We show that the large-charge asymptotics agree with analytic results in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-28 Sameer Murthy

Six-dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs) give rise to four-dimensional (4d) ones when compactified on Riemann surfaces. In the $\mathcal{N}=(2,0)$ case, this yields the famous class S family. For $\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-22 Fabio Apruzzi , Noppadol Mekareeya , Brandon Robinson , Alessandro Tomasiello

The 12d supersymmetry algebra is considered, and classification of BPS states for some canonical form of second-rank central charge is given. It is shown, that possible fractions of survived supersymmetry can be 1/16, 1/8, 3/16, 1/4, 5/16…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Manvelyan , A. Melikyan , R. Mkrtchyan