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We consider general 5d $SU(N)$ quiver gauge theories whose nodes form an ADE Dynkin diagram of type $G$. Each node has $SU(N_i)$ gauge group of general rank, Chern-Simons level $\kappa_i$ and additional $w_i$ fundamentals. When the total…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-02 Kazuya Yonekura

We study the decomposition of 4d $\mathcal{N}=1$ gauge theories with Lie algebras of type $\mathfrak{su}(N)$, $\mathfrak{so}(2N)$, and $\mathfrak{e}_{6}$, realized via M-theory geometric engineering. These theories, together with their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-04 Osama Khlaif , Marwan Najjar

Aspects of three dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theories with monopole superpotentials and their dualities are investigated. The moduli spaces of a number of such theories are studied using Hilbert series. Moreover, we propose new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-01 Antonio Amariti , Ivan Garozzo , Noppadol Mekareeya

We attack the long-standing problem of finding the AdS dual of N = 2 superconformal QCD, the N=2 super Yang Mills theory with gauge group SU(N_c) and N_f = 2 N_c fundamental hyper multiplets. The theory admits a Veneziano expansion of large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-31 Abhijit Gadde , Elli Pomoni , Leonardo Rastelli

We discuss and provide nontrivial evidence for a large class of dualities in three-dimensional field theories with different gauge groups. We match the full partition functions of the dual phases for any value of the couplings to underpin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Prarit Agarwal , Antonio Amariti , Massimo Siani

In this paper we investigate and propose new dualities involving 2d gauge theories with $\mathcal{N}=(0,2)$ supersymmetry. In the first part of the paper we focus on $\mathrm{SU}(n)$ gauge theories with two antisymmetric chirals. The gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-27 Antonio Amariti , Pietro Glorioso , Chiara Mascherpa , Andrea Zanetti

We analyze the effects of soft supersymmetry breaking terms on N=1 supersymmetric QCD with $N_f$ flavors and color gauge group $SU(N_c)$. The mass squared of some squarks may be negative, as long as vacuum stability is ensured by a simple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Eric D'Hoker , Yukihiro Mimura , Norisuke Sakai

We consider N=2 SQCD with the U(N) gauge group and N_f flavors (N_f>N) perturbed by an N=2 breaking deformation - a small mass term \mu for the adjoint matter. We study r-vacua, with the constraint $2N_f/3 < r \le N. At large values of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 M. Shifman , A. Yung

We conjecture infrared emergent $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetry for a class of three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ $U(1)$ gauge theories coupled with a single chiral multiplet. One example is the case where $U(1)$ gauge group has the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-22 Dongmin Gang , Masahito Yamazaki

We discuss $SU(N_c)$ gauge theory coupled to two adjoint chiral superfields $X$ and $Y$, and a number of fundamental chiral superfields $Q^i$. We add a superpotential that has the form of Arnold's $D$ series $W = \Tr X^{k+1} + \Tr XY^2$. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 John Brodie

In this paper we present a beautifully consistent web of evidence for the existence of interacting 4d rank-1 $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs obtained from gauging discrete subgroups of global symmetries of other existing 4d rank-1 $\mathcal{N}=2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-07 Philip C. Argyres , Mario Martone

We consider supersymmetric domain walls of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}\!=\!1$ $Sp(N)$ SQCD with $F\!=\!N+1$ and $F\!=\!N+2$ flavors. First, we study numerically the differential equations defining the walls, classifying the solutions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Sergio Benvenuti , Paolo Spezzati

We analyze the phase structure of supersymmetric chiral gauge theories with gauge group SU(N), an antisymmetric, and F<N+4 flavors, in the presence of a cubic superpotential. When F=N+3 the theory flows to a superconformal fixed point in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Nathaniel Craig , Rouven Essig , Anson Hook , Gonzalo Torroba

In the last twenty years, low-energy (IR) dualities have been found for many pairs of supersymmetric gauge theories with four supercharges, both in four space-time dimensions and in three space-time dimensions. In particular, duals have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-03 Ofer Aharony , Daniel Fleischer

We find boundary confining dualities of 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories with exceptional gauge groups. The half-indices which enumerate the boundary BPS local operators in the presence of Neumann and Dirichlet boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-29 Tadashi Okazaki , Douglas J. Smith

We study N=(2,2) supersymmetric abelian gauge theories in two dimensions. The exact BPS spectrum of these models is shown to coincide with the spectrum of massive hypermultiplets of certain N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories in four…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 N. Dorey , T. J. Hollowood , D. Tong

We propose new classes of $4d$ $\mathcal{N}\!=\!1$ S-confining gauge theories, with a simple gauge group, rank-two matter and cubic superpotentials. The gauge group can be symplectic, orthogonal or special unitary. In some cases we derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-18 Stephane Bajeot , Sergio Benvenuti , Matteo Sacchi

We study duality defects in 2+1d theories with $\bZ^{(0)}_N\times\bZ^{(1)}_N$ global symmetry and trivial mixed 't Hooft anomaly. By gauging these symmetries simultaneously in half of the spacetime, we define duality defects for theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-02 Wei Cui , Babak Haghighat , Lorenzo Ruggeri

We construct gravity duals to supersymmetric gauge theories in the presence of unquenched flavor hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation of the gauge group living on the (1+1)-dimensional defect. This configuration is given by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Niko Jokela , José Manuel Penín , Konstantinos Christos S. Rigatos

We study $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories on four-dimensional manifolds that admit a Killing vector $v$ with isolated fixed points. It is possible to deform these theories by coupling position-dependent background fields to the flavor current…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-21 Usman Naseer , Charles Thull