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We study renormalization group flow of four dimensional N=2 SCFTs defined by isolated hypersurface three-fold singularities. We define the spectrum of N=2 theory as the set of scaling dimensions of the parameters on the Coulomb branch,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Dan Xie , Shing-Tung Yau

Gauge theories can be solved exactly slightly away from the supersymmetric (SUSY) limit softly broken by anomaly mediation when the size of SUSY breaking is much smaller than the dynamical scale ($m \ll \Lambda$). We show empirical evidence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-16 Dan Kondo , Hitoshi Murayama , Bea Noether

We propose that a certain $4d$ $\mathcal{N}=1$ $SU(4)$ gauge theory flows in the IR to the rank $1$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ strongly coupled SCFT with $E_6$ global symmetry and $25$ free chiral fields. This proposal is tested by comparing various…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Gabi Zafrir

We study various supersymmetric RG flows of $N=3$ Chern-Simons-Matter theory in three dimensions by using four-dimensional $N=3$ gauged supergravity coupled to eight vector multiplets with $SO(3)\times SU(3)$ gauge group. The $AdS_4$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-17 Parinya Karndumri

It was found that deformation of S^7 gives rise to renormalization group(RG) flow from N=8, SO(8)-invariant UV fixed point to N=1, G_2-invariant IR fixed point in four-dimensional gauged N=8 supergravity. Also BPS supersymmetric domain wall…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Changhyun Ahn , Taichi Itoh

We explore novel examples of RG flows preserving a non-invertible self-duality symmetry. Our main focus is on $\mathcal{N}=1$ quadratic superpotential deformations of 4d $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory with gauge algebra…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-16 Jeremias Aguilera Damia , Riccardo Argurio , Francesco Benini , Sergio Benvenuti , Christian Copetti , Luigi Tizzano

We find new, local, non-supersymmetric conformal field theories obtained by relevant deformations of the N=4 super Yang Mills theory in the large $N$ limit. We contruct interpolating supergravity solutions that naturally represent the flow…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 L. Girardello , M. Petrini , M. Porrati , A. Zaffaroni

We study certain N=1 preserving deformations of four-dimensional N=2 superconformal field theories (SCFTs) with non-abelian flavor symmetry. The deformation is described by adding an N=1 chiral multiplet transforming in the adjoint…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Kazunobu Maruyoshi , Jaewon Song

We discuss the holographic counterpart of a recent conjecture regarding R-symmetric RG-flows in four-dimensional supersymmetric field theories. In such theories, a quantity \tau_U can be defined at the fixed points which was conjectured in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Matteo Bertolini , Lorenzo Di Pietro , Flavio Porri

We analyze superselection sectors, non-invertible symmetries and selection rules for RG flows triggered via perturbations of a UV two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT$_2$). To this end we describe a method whose input is the local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-11 Valentin Benedetti , Paul Fendley , Javier M. Magan

We study holographic RG flow solutions within four-dimensional $N=4$ gauged supergravity obtained from type IIA and IIB string theories compactified on $T^6/\mathbb{Z}_2\times \mathbb{Z}_2$ orbifold with gauge, geometric and non-geometric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-11 Parinya Karndumri , Khem Upathambhakul

We find a four-dimensional N=1 gauge theory which flows to the minimal interacting N=2 superconformal field theory, the Argyres-Douglas theory, in the infrared up to the extra free chiral multiplets. The gauge theory is obtained from a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-19 Kazunobu Maruyoshi , Jaewon Song

We map out and explore the zoo of possible 4d N=1 superconformal theories which are obtained as RG fixed points of N=1 SQCD with N_f fundamental and N_a adjoint matter representations. Using "a-maximization," we obtain exact operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ken Intriligator , Brian Wecht

We analyze four-dimensional (4d) $N=1$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) obtained as deformations of 4d $N=2$ SCFTs on S-folds by tilting 7-branes. Geometric compatibility with the structures of S-folds constrains the forms of T-branes.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-06 Yusuke Kimura

We present a new, general constraint which, in principle, determines the superconformal $U(1)_R$ symmetry of 4d $\N =1$ SCFTs, and also 3d $\N =2$ SCFTs. Among all possibilities, the superconformal $U(1)_R$ is that which minimizes the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Edwin Barnes , Elie Gorbatov , Ken Intriligator , Matt Sudano , Jason Wright

This contribution contains a review of the role of the three-sphere free energy F in recent developments related to the F-theorem and F-maximization. The F-theorem states that for any Lorentz-invariant RG trajectory connecting a conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Silviu S. Pufu

We study four-dimensional $N=4$ gauged supergravity coupled to six vector multiplets with semisimple gauge groups $SO(4)\times SO(4)$, $SO(3,1)\times SO(3,1)$ and $SO(4)\times SO(3,1)$. All of these gauge groups are dyonically embedded in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-07 Parinya Karndumri , Khem Upathambhakul

We find a large class of two-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(0,2)$ SCFTs obtained by compactifying four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ quiver gauge theories on a Riemann surface. We study these theories using anomalies and $c$-extremization. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-07 Francesco Benini , Nikolay Bobev , P. Marcos Crichigno

We study RG flows between superconformal field theories living in different spacetime dimensions which exhibit universal properties, independent of the details of the UV and IR theories. In particular, when the UV and IR theories are both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Nikolay Bobev , P. Marcos Crichigno

Supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric deformations of large $N=(4,4)$ SCFT with superconformal symmetry $D^1(2,1;\alpha)\times D^1(2,1;\alpha)$ are explored in the gravity dual described by a Chern-Simons $N=8$, $(SO(4)\times SO(4))\ltimes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-22 Parinya Karndumri