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We study the action of S-duality on half-BPS Wilson loop operators in 5d $\mathcal{N}=1$ theories. The duality is the statement that different massive deformations of a single 5d SCFT are described by different gauge theories, or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Benjamin Assel , Antonio Sciarappa

Multi-parametric families of AdS$_{4}$ vacua with various amounts of supersymmetry and residual gauge symmetry are found in the $\,[\textrm{SO}(1,1) \times \textrm{SO}(6)] \ltimes \mathbb{R}^{12}\,$ maximal supergravity that arises from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 Adolfo Guarino , Colin Sterckx , Mario Trigiante

We study (1,0) and (2,0) 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) that can be constructed in F-theory. Quite surprisingly, all of them involve an orbifold singularity C^2 / G with G a discrete subgroup of U(2). When G is a subgroup of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Jonathan J. Heckman , David R. Morrison , Cumrun Vafa

We compute the Lens space index for 4d supersymmetric gauge theories involving symplectic gauge groups. This index can distinguish between different gauge groups from a given algebra and it matches across theories related by supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-25 Antonio Amariti , Simone Rota

We study the four-dimensional N=2 superconformal field theories that describe D3-branes probing the recently constructed N=2 S-folds in F-theory. We introduce a novel, infinite class of superconformal field theories related to S-fold…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Simone Giacomelli , Carlo Meneghelli , Wolfger Peelaers

We initiate a systematic study of four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) based on the analysis of their Coulomb branch geometries. Because these SCFTs are not uniquely characterized by their scale-invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-06 Philip Argyres , Matteo Lotito , Yongchao Lü , Mario Martone

We study 4D N=2 superconformal theories that arise from the compactification of 6D N=(2,0) theories of type A_{2N-1} on a Riemann surface C, in the presence of punctures twisted by a Z_2 outer automorphism. We describe how to do a complete…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-18 Oscar Chacaltana , Jacques Distler , Yuji Tachikawa

We study the gauge invariant 't Hooft operator in canonical formalism for Yang-Mills theory as well as the $\mathcal{N} =4 $ super-Yang-Mills theory with the gauge group $ U(N) $. It is shown that the spectrum of the 't Hooft operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-17 Shan Hu

Duality symmetries have been extensively investigated in various contexts, playing a crucial role in understanding quantum field theory and condensed matter theory. In this paper, we extend this framework by studying $N$-ality symmetries,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-15 Jun Maeda , Tsubasa Oishi

We study S-dualities in analytically continued SL(2) Chern-Simons theory on a 3-manifold M. By realizing Chern-Simons theory via a compactification of a 6d five-brane theory on M, various objects and symmetries in Chern-Simons theory become…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-24 Tudor Dimofte , Sergei Gukov

In this work we study particular TQFTs in three dimensions, known as Symmetry Topological Field Theories (or SymTFTs), to identify line defects of two-dimensional CFTs arising from the compactification of 6d $(2,0)$ SCFTs on 4-manifolds…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-26 Jin Chen , Wei Cui , Babak Haghighat , Yi-Nan Wang

We derive the algebraic description of the Coulomb branch of 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ $USp(2N)$ SQCD theories with $N_f$ fundamental hypermultiplets and determine their low energy physics in any vacuum from the local geometry of the moduli space,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 Benjamin Assel , Stefano Cremonesi

In this work, we revisit abelian S-duality in the context of higher gauge theory. By using a specific crossed module a set of transformations arise, which are known as the "thin" and "fat" transformations. The "fat" transformations are the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-17 Javier Chagoya , A. D. López-Hernández , M. Sabido

We discuss the gravity duals of 4d N=2 superconformal field theories (SCFTs) arising from the low-energy limit of brane configurations of D4-branes stretched between and intersecting NS5-branes and D6-branes. This gives rise to a product of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Ofer Aharony , Leon Berdichevsky , Micha Berkooz

We study a realization of S dualities of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ class $\mathcal{S}$ theories based on BPS graphs. S duality transformations of the UV curve are explicitly expressed as a sequence of topological transitions of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-26 Dongmin Gang , Pietro Longhi , Masahito Yamazaki

Six-dimensional N=(1,0) superconformal field theories can be engineered geometrically via F-theory on elliptically-fibered Calabi-Yau 3-folds. We include torsional sections in the geometry, which lead to a finite Mordell-Weil group. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Markus Dierigl , Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann , Fabian Ruehle

In this paper we present various $4d$ $\mathcal{N}=1$ dualities involving theories obtained by gluing two $E[USp(2N)]$ blocks via the gauging of a common $USp(2N)$ symmetry with the addition of $2L$ fundamental matter chiral fields. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-23 Lea E. Bottini , Chiung Hwang , Sara Pasquetti , Matteo Sacchi

We examine a dual theory of a Supersymmetric Standard Model(SSM) in terms of an $SU(3)_C$ gauge group. In this scenario, it is naturally understood that at least one quark (the top quark) should be heavy, i.e., almost the same order as the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-13 Nobuhiro Maekawa

We study gravity duals of the minimal $N=2$ super Yang-Mills (SYM) gauge theories in five dimensions using the matter coupled $F(4)$ gauged supergravity in six dimensions. The $F(4)$ gauged supergravity coupled to $n$ vector multiplets…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-05 Parinya Karndumri

Through a self-dual mapping of the geometry AdS5 x S5, fermionic T-duality provides a beautiful geometric interpretation of hidden symmetries for scattering amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills. Starting with Green-Schwarz sigma-models, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-31 Eoin Ó Colgáin