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We present a DSSYK-like interpretation of the Schur half-indices of $\mathcal{N}=2$ $SU(2)$ gauge theories with matter, in the presence of fundamental Wilson lines. The Schur half-indices of these theories can be understood as transition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Micha Berkooz , Trivko Kukolj , Josef Seitz

We propose a general strategy to build three-dimensional gauge theories with four supercharges which enjoy a supersymmetry enhancement in the IR. The resulting IR SCFTs admit topological twists with particularly nice properties, as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-01 Davide Gaiotto , Heeyeon Kim

The vacuum structure and spectra of two-dimensional gauge theories with N=(2,2) supersymmetry are investigated. These theories admit a twisted mass term for charged chiral matter multiplets. In the case of a U(1) gauge theory with N chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 N. Dorey

The Schur limit of the superconformal index of a four-dimensional N = 2 superconformal field theory encodes rich physical information about the protected spectrum of the theory. For a Lagrangian model, this limit of the index can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-18 Yiwen Pan , Wolfger Peelaers

We provide evidence for the existence of a new strongly-coupled four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theory arising as a non-trivial IR fixed point on the Coulomb branch of the mass-deformed superconformal Lagrangian theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-04 Justin Kaidi , Mario Martone

Given an $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theory, we reconsider the Schur index $\mathcal{I}_L(q)$ in the presence of a half line defect $L$. Recently Cordova-Gaiotto-Shao found that $\mathcal{I}_L(q)$ admits an expansion in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-13 Andrew Neitzke , Fei Yan

We revisit the study of singular points in the Coulomb branch of $\mathcal{N}=2$ SQCD in four dimensions with gauge group $SU(N)$ and odd number of flavors. For certain choices of the mass parameters these vacua are not lifted by a mass…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-18 Stefano Bolognesi , Simone Giacomelli , Kenichi Konishi

We consider chiral condensates in SU(2) gauge theory with broken N=2 supersymmetry. The matter sector contains an adjoint multiplet and one fundamental flavor. Matter and gaugino condensates are determined by integrating out the adjoint…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Gorsky , A. Vainshtein , A. Yung

We develop new techniques for computing exact correlation functions of a class of local operators, including certain monopole operators, in three-dimensional $\mathcal{N} = 4$ abelian gauge theories that have superconformal infrared limits.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-18 Mykola Dedushenko , Yale Fan , Silviu S. Pufu , Ran Yacoby

We compute the Schur indices in the presence of some line operators based on our con- jectural formula introduced in [1]. In particular, we focus on the rank 1 superconformal field theories with the enhanced global symmetry and the free…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-02 Noriaki Watanabe

We study supersymmetric gauge theories in five dimensions, using their relation to the K-theory of the moduli spaces of torsion free sheaves. In the spirit of the BPS/CFT correspondence the partition function and the expectation values of…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-13 Erik Carlsson , Nikita Nekrasov , Andrei Okounkov

We study the Schur index of 4-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ circular quiver theories. We show that the index can be expressed as a weighted sum over partition functions describing systems of free Fermions living on a circle. For circular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-13 Jun Bourdier , Nadav Drukker , Jan Felix

Families of vertex algebras associated to nilpotent elements of simply-laced Lie algebras are constructed. These algebras are close cousins of logarithmic W-algebras of Feigin and Tipunin and they are also obtained as modifications of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-26 Thomas Creutzig

We generalize, in a manifestly Weyl-invariant way, our previous expressions for irregular singularity wave functions in two-dimensional SU(2) q-deformed Yang-Mills theory to SU(N). As an application, we give closed-form expressions for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Matthew Buican , Takahiro Nishinaka

The large R-charge limit of two-point functions of chiral primary operators in rank-one N=2 superconformal field theories exhibits a universal behavior controlled by the effective field theory on their Coulomb branch. In the case of SU(2)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-24 Andrea Cipriani , Raffaele Savelli

We construct N=1 non-critical strings in four dimensions dual to strongly coupled N=1 quiver gauge theories in the Coulomb phase, generalizing the string duals of Argyres-Douglas points in N=2 gauge theories. They are the first examples of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Dan Israel

We investigate the deformed Schur index in four dimensional N=4 super Yang-Mills theories with $SO$ and $Sp$ gauge groups, generalizing Hatsuda's recent calculations. We express the deformed Schur index as integrals of Koornwinder…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Gao-fu Ren , Min-xin Huang

We generalize S-duality to N=2 superconformal field theories (SCFTs) with Coulomb branch operators of non-integer scaling dimension. As simple examples, we find minimal generalizations of the S-dualities discovered in SU(2) gauge theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Matthew Buican , Simone Giacomelli , Takahiro Nishinaka , Constantinos Papageorgakis

The low energy effective theory of the N=1 supersymmetric SU(5) gauge theory with chiral superfields in the 5* and 10 representations is constructed. Instead of postulating the confinement of SU(5) (confining picture), only the confinement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Noriaki Kitazawa

This paper studies a special class of states for the dual conformal field theories associated with supersymmetric $AdS_5\times X$ compactifications, where $X$ is a Sasaki-Einstein manifold with additional $U(1)$ symmetries. Under…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-02 David Berenstein