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We study a realization of S dualities of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ class $\mathcal{S}$ theories based on BPS graphs. S duality transformations of the UV curve are explicitly expressed as a sequence of topological transitions of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-26 Dongmin Gang , Pietro Longhi , Masahito Yamazaki

In this paper we analyze various half-BPS defects in a general three dimensional N=2 supersymmetric gauge theory T. They correspond to closed paths in SUSY parameter space and their tension is computed by evaluating period integrals along…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Abhijit Gadde , Sergei Gukov , Pavel Putrov

We apply reinforcement learning (RL) to establish whether at a given position in the Coulomb branch of the moduli space of a 4d $\mathcal{N} = 2$ quantum field theory (QFT) the BPS spectrum is finite. If it is, we furthermore determine the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-06 Federico Carta , Asa Gauntlett , Finley Griffin , Yang-Hui He

We define the notion of a complete N=2 supersymmetric theory in 4 dimensions as a UV complete theory for which all the BPS central charges can be arbitrarily varied as we vary its Coulomb branch parameters, masses, and coupling constants.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-12 Sergio Cecotti , Cumrun Vafa

We study and compute supersymmetric observables for line defects in 3d $\mathcal{N}\ge4$ theories. Our setup is a novel supersymmetric configuration involving line operators and local operators living on a linked circle. The algebra of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-19 Luigi Guerrini

We investigate the role of framing in a family of 1/24 BPS Wilson loops in ABJ(M) theory, which define flows between 1/6 BPS and the 1/2 BPS superconformal fixed points. We analyze in perturbation theory how framing affects both the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-30 Marco S. Bianchi , Luigi Castiglioni , Silvia Penati , Marcia Tenser , Diego Trancanelli

We develop a method to identify the BPS states in the Hilbert space of a supersymmetric field theory on a generic curved space which preserves at least two real supercharges. We also propose a one-to-one map between BPS states in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Prarit Agarwal , Antonio Amariti , Alberto Mariotti , Massimo Siani

We study BPS $q$-series associated to 3-manifolds decorated by a line defect along an embedded link. We prove that these $q$-series depend only on the class of the link in the skein module, thereby defining a homomorphism from the skein…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Sunghyuk Park

This paper provides both a detailed study of color-dependence of link homologies, as realized in physics as certain spaces of BPS states, and a broad study of the behavior of BPS states in general. We consider how the spectrum of BPS states…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-25 Sergei Gukov , Satoshi Nawata , Ingmar Saberi , Marko Stosic , Piotr Sułkowski

In this work, we apply the so-called BPS method in order to obtain topological defects for a complex scalar field Lagrangian introduced by Trullinger and Subbaswamy. The BPS approach led us to compute new analytical solutions for this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-21 J. R. L. Santos , A. de Souza Dutra , O. C. Winter , R. A. C. Correa

We study the BPS spectrum of supersymmetric 5 dimensional field theories and their representations as string webs. It is found that a state of given charges exists when it has a representation as an irreducible string web. Its spin is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Barak Kol , J. Rahmfeld

We study a large class of BPS surface defects in 4d N=2 gauge theories. They are defined by coupling a 2d N=(2,2) gauged linear sigma model to the 4d bulk degrees of freedom. Our main result is an efficient computation of the effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Davide Gaiotto , Sergei Gukov , Nathan Seiberg

We propose a symmetrization relation between BPS quivers encoding 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories and symmetric quivers associated to 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories. We analyse in detail the symmetrization of BPS quivers for a series of $A_m$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-01 Piotr Kucharski , Pietro Longhi , Dmitry Noshchenko , Sunghyuk Park , Piotr Sułkowski

In this article, we investigate the BPS invariants associated with framed links. We extend the relationship between the algebraic curve (i.e. dual $A$-polynomial) and the BPS invariants of a knot investigated in \cite{GKS} to the case of a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Kai Wang , Shengmao Zhu

We discuss several aspects of D-brane moduli spaces and BPS spectra near orbifold points. We give a procedure to determine the decay products on a line of marginal stability, and we define the algebra of BPS states in terms of quivers.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Bartomeu Fiol , Marcos Marino

This is the first of a series of papers discussing canonical aspects of the two-dimensional non-linear sigma model in the presence of conformal defects on the world-sheet in the framework of gerbe theory. In the paper, the basic tools of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Rafał R. Suszek

This is a survey article for "Handbook of Linear Algebra", 2nd ed., Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2014. An informal introduction to representations of quivers and finite dimensional algebras from a linear algebraist's point of view is given. The…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-31 Roger A. Horn , Vladimir V. Sergeichuk

We explore statistical properties of BPS q-series for 3d N=2 strongly coupled supersymmetric theories that correspond to a particular family of 3-manifolds Y. We discover that gaps between exponents in the q-series are statistically more…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-27 Sergei Gukov , Rak-Kyeong Seong

We classify, in a group theoretical manner, the BPS configurations in the multiple M2-brane theory recently proposed by Bagger and Lambert. We present three types of BPS equations preserving various fractions of supersymmetries: in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Imtak Jeon , Jongwook Kim , Nakwoo Kim , Sang-Woo Kim , Jeong-Hyuck Park

A generalization of highly symmetric frames is presented by considering also projective stabilizers of frame vectors. This allows construction of highly symmetric line systems and study of highly symmetric frames in a more unified manner.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Mikhail Ganzhinov