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We study correlation functions in topologically twisted $\mathcal{N}=2, d=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory for gauge groups of rank larger than one on compact four-manifolds $X$. We find that the topological invariance of the generator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-07 Marcos Marino , Gregory Moore

We study a set of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) $\widehat{\Gamma}(G)$ labeled by a pair of simply-laced Lie groups $\Gamma$ and $G$. They are constructed out of gauging a number of $\mathcal{D}_p(G)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-12 Monica Jinwoo Kang , Craig Lawrie , Jaewon Song

The Higgs branch of 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs can be analyzed via the Hilbert series of the Higgs branch or, in special cases, by computing the Hall-Littlewood index. For any class $\mathcal{S}$ theory corresponding to a genus-zero Riemann…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-09 Monica Jinwoo Kang , Craig Lawrie , Ki-Hong Lee , Matteo Sacchi , Jaewon Song

We demonstrate the presence of non-invertible symmetries in an infinite family of superconformal Argyres-Douglas theories. This class of theories arises from diagonal gauging of the flavor symmetry of a collection of multiple copies of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-20 Federico Carta , Simone Giacomelli , Noppadol Mekareeya , Alessandro Mininno

We realize four-dimensional N=2 superconformal quiver gauge theories with alternating SO and USp gauge groups as compactifications of the six-dimensional D_N theory with defects. The construction can be used to analyze infinitely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-06 Yuji Tachikawa

We compute the partition function for 6d $\mathcal{N}=1$ $SO(2N)$ gauge theories compactified on a circle with $\mathbb{Z}_2$ outer automorphism twist. We perform the computation based on 5-brane webs with two O5-planes using topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-28 Hee-Cheol Kim , Minsung Kim , Sung-Soo Kim

One of the hallmarks of 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) is that on a partial tensor branch, all known theories resemble quiver gauge theories with links comprised of 6D conformal matter, a generalization of weakly coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 Fabio Apruzzi , Jonathan J. Heckman , David R. Morrison , Luigi Tizzano

The class of 2d minimal model CFTs with higher spin AdS3 duals is extended to theories with large N=4 superconformal symmetry. We construct a higher spin theory based on the global D(2,1|alpha) superalgebra, and propose a large N family of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Matthias R. Gaberdiel , Rajesh Gopakumar

We find new classes of AdS_4 solutions with localized branes and orientifolds, both analytic and numerical. We start with an Ansatz for the pure spinors inspired by a recently found class of AdS_7 x M_3 solutions in massive IIA; we replace…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-25 Andrea Rota , Alessandro Tomasiello

The trialitarian automorphisms considered in this paper are the outer automorphisms of order 3 of adjoint classical groups of type D_4 over arbitrary fields. A one-to-one correspondence is established between their conjugacy classes and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-06-28 Vladimir Chernousov , Max-Albert Knus , Jean-Pierre Tignol

With the aim of understanding compactifications of 6D superconformal field theories to four dimensions, we study punctures for theories of class $\mathcal{S}_{\Gamma}$. The class $\mathcal{S}_{\Gamma}$ theories arise from M5-branes probing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Jonathan J. Heckman , Patrick Jefferson , Tom Rudelius , Cumrun Vafa

We list 4d interacting $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFT with minimal flavor central charge from the theory space constructed using 6d $(2,0)$ theory. For $ADE$ and $C_N$ flavor groups, our theory saturates the bound found using bootstrap method, but…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-12 Dan Xie

We determine which simple algebraic groups of type $^3D_4$ over arbitrary fields of characteristic different from 2 admit outer automorphisms of order 3, and classify these automorphisms up to conjugation. The criterion is formulated in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-09-08 Max-Albert Knus , Jean-Pierre Tignol

We initiate the study of exotic Dehn twists along 3-manifolds $\neq S^3$ inside $4$-manifolds, which produces the first known examples of exotic diffeomorphisms of contractible 4-manifolds, more generally of definite 4-manifolds, and exotic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Hokuto Konno , Abhishek Mallick , Masaki Taniguchi

We consider supersymmetric surface defects in compactifications of the $6d$ minimal $(D_{N+3},D_{N+3})$ conformal matter theories on a punctured Riemann surface. For the case of $N=1$ such defects are introduced into the supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-27 Belal Nazzal , Anton Nedelin , Shlomo S. Razamat

We study 6d N=(2,0) theory of type SU(N) compactified on Riemann surfaces with finite area, including spheres with fewer than three punctures. The Higgs branch, whose metric is inversely proportional to the total area of the Riemann…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-21 Davide Gaiotto , Gregory W. Moore , Yuji Tachikawa

Three-dimensional N = 4 supersymmetric quantum field theories admit two topological twists, the Rozansky-Witten twist and its mirror. Either twist can be used to define a supersymmetric compactification on a Riemann surface and a corre-…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-20 Davide Gaiotto

We propose a generalization of S-folds to 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories. This construction is motivated by the classification of rank one 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ super-conformal field theories (SCFTs), which we reproduce from D3-branes probing a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-07 Fabio Apruzzi , Simone Giacomelli , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

We study superconformal indices of $4d$ compactifications of the $6d$ minimal $(D_{N+3},D_{N+3})$ conformal matter theories on a punctured Riemann surface. Introduction of supersymmetric surface defect in these theories is done at the level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-19 Belal Nazzal , Anton Nedelin

We define a holographic dual to the Donaldson-Witten topological twist of $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theories on a Riemannian four-manifold. This is described by a class of asymptotically locally hyperbolic solutions to $\mathcal{N}=4$ gauged…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-30 Pietro Benetti Genolini , Paul Richmond , James Sparks