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We study a class of renormalization group flows on line defects that can be described by a generalized free field with ordered planar contractions on the line. They are realized, for example, in large $N$ gauge theories with matter in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-18 Ivri Nagar , Amit Sever , De-liang Zhong

Supersymmetric Sp(k) quantum chromodynamics with 8 supercharges in space-time dimensions 3 to 6 can be realised by two different Type II brane configurations in the presence of orientifolds. Consequently, two types of magnetic quivers…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-09 Satoshi Nawata , Marcus Sperling , Hao Ellery Wang , Zhenghao Zhong

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

We concentrate on a treatment of a Higgs-Coulomb duality as an absence of manifest phase transition between ordered and disordered phases of 2d $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ theories. We consider these examples of QFTs in the Schr\"odinger picture…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-13 Dmitry Galakhov

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 the geometric description of BPS states in supersymmetric theories with eight supercharges in terms of geodesic networks on suitable spectral curves. We lift and extend several constructions of Gaiotto-Moore-Neitzke from gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Richard Eager , Sam Alexandre Selmani , Johannes Walcher

In this note we review a construction of a BPS Hilbert space in an effective supersymmetric quiver theory with 4 supercharges. We argue abstractly that this space contains elements of an equivariant generalized cohomology theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-11 Dmitry Galakhov

Using an infinitesimal approach, this work addresses the renormalization problem to deal with the ultraviolet divergences arising in quantum field theory. Under the assumption that the action has already been renormalized to yield an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-09 L. L. Salcedo

I review, with some pedagogy, two different approaches to the computation of BPS spectra in N=2 supersymmetric QCD with gauge group SU(2). The first one is semiclassical and has been widely used in the literature. The second one makes use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Frank Ferrari

We present a generalization of quantum error correction to infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. The generalization yields new classes of quantum error correcting codes that have no finite-dimensional counterparts. The error correction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-06 Cédric Bény , Achim Kempf , David W. Kribs

I present a simple graphical method to find the BPS spectra of $A_1$ theories of class S. BPS graphs provide a bridge between spectral networks and BPS quivers, the two main frameworks for the study of BPS states. Here I show how to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-01 Maxime Gabella

We compute the Hilbert series of three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=3$ quiver gauge theories by taking a specific limit of the superconformal index. Our approach introduces auxiliary fugacities associated with symmetries which, while not…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-20 Riccardo Comi , Sebastiano Garavaglia , William Harding , Noppadol Mekareeya

Starting from the $\mathcal{N}=2$ SYM$_{4}$ quiver theory living on wrapped $% N_{i}D5$ branes around $S_{i}^{2}$ spheres of deformed ADE fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds (CY3) and considering deformations using \textit{% massive} vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Malika Ait Benhaddou , El Hassan Saidi

We study the basic features of BPS quiver mutations in 4D $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric quantum field theory with $G=ADE$ gauge symmetries.\ We show, for these gauge symmetries, that there is an isotropy group $\mathcal{G}_{Mut}^{G}$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 El Hassan Saidi

Understanding the map of line defects in a Quantum Field Theory under a given duality is generically a difficult problem. This paper is the second in a series which aims to address this question in the context of 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ mirror…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-10 Anindya Dey

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 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 study universal features of defect correlation functions in supersymmetric defect CFTs, focusing on four-point functions of the displacement supermultiplet. By perturbing the leading-order correlators at strong coupling, we derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-13 Riccardo Giordana Pozzi

We propose a program for counting microstates of four-dimensional BPS black holes in N >= 2 supergravities with symmetric-space valued scalars by exploiting the symmetries of timelike reduction to three dimensions. Inspired by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-09 Murat Gunaydin , Andrew Neitzke , Boris Pioline , Andrew Waldron

We present a quantum mechanical approach to understanding the Hilbert space and the defect Hilbert spaces associated with line operators of BF theory combined with level-$k$ Chern-Simons theory. The defect Hilbert spaces are closely related…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-28 Qiang Jia , Jiahua Tian