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We present examples of 5d SCFTs that serve as counter-examples to a recently actively studied conjecture according to which it should be possible to obtain all 5d SCFTs by integrating out BPS particles from 6d SCFTs compactified on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-11 Lakshya Bhardwaj

We study CFT data of 3-dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs) arising from wrapped two M5-branes on closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Via so-called 3d/3d correspondence, central charges of these SCFTs are related to a $SL(2)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Jin-Beom Bae , Dongmin Gang , Jaehoon Lee

We develop a classification of \emph{minimally unbalanced} $3d~\mathcal{N}=4$ quiver gauge theories. These gauge theories are important because the isometry group $G$ of their Coulomb branch contains a single factor, which is either a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Santiago Cabrera , Amihay Hanany , Anton Zajac

We show that a proposed duality [arXiv:0711.0054] between infinitely coupled gauge theories and superconformal field theories (SCFTs) with weakly gauged flavor groups predicts the existence of new rank 1 SCFTs. These superconformal fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-15 Philip C. Argyres , John R. Wittig

Different gaugings of the global symmetry of a quantum field theory are closely related to its various phases. In this work, we study candidate gaugeable symmetries by analyzing candidate Lagrangian algebra data in the Drinfeld center of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-29 Qiang Jia , Cheng Ma , Jiahua Tian

We present a conjecture for the crossing symmetry rules for Chern-Simons gauge theories interacting with massive matter in $2+1$ dimensions. Our crossing rules are given in terms of the expectation values of particular tangles of Wilson…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-28 Umang Mehta , Shiraz Minwalla , Chintan Patel , Shiroman Prakash , Kartik Sharma

We study the spectrum of BPS particles on the Coulomb branch of five-dimensional superconformal field theories (5d SCFTs) compactified on a circle. By engineering these theories in M-theory on ${\mathbf X} \times S^1 $, for ${\mathbf X}$ an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-03 Cyril Closset , Michele Del Zotto

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 characterize the global symmetries for the conjecturally complete collection of six dimensional superconformal field theories (6D SCFTs) which are realizable in F-theory and have no frozen singularities. We provide comprehensive checks…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-03 Peter R. Merkx

We propose a novel procedure of assigning a pair of non-unitary topological quantum field theories (TQFTs), TFT$_\pm [\mathcal{T}_{\rm rank \;0}]$, to a (2+1)D interacting $\mathcal{N}=4$ superconformal field theory (SCFT) $\mathcal{T}_{\rm…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Dongmin Gang , Sungjoon Kim , Kimyeong Lee , Myungbo Shim , Masahito Yamazaki

We develop a unified categorical framework for gauging both continuous and finite symmetries in arbitrary spacetime dimensions. Our construction applies to geometric categories i.e. categories internal to stacks. This generalizes the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Devon Stockall , Matthew Yu

In this first of a series of three papers we outline an approach to classifying 4d $\mathcal{N}{=}2$ superconformal field theories at rank 2. The classification of allowed scale invariant $\mathcal{N}=2$ Coulomb branch geometries of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Philip C. Argyres , Mario Martone

3d Chern-Simons gauge theory has a strong connection with 2d CFT and link invariants in knot theory. We impose some constraints on the $D(2|1;\alpha)$ CS theory in the similar context of the hamiltonian reduction of 2d superconformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Yukitaka Ishimoto

We extend the investigation of the recently introduced class ${\cal S}_k$ of 4d $\mathcal{N}=1$ SCFTs, by considering a large family of quiver gauge theories within it, which we denote $\mathcal{S}^1_k$. These theories admit a realization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-12 Sebastian Franco , Hirotaka Hayashi , Angel Uranga

We determine the 1-form symmetry group for any 4d N = 2 class S theory constructed by compactifying a 6d N=(2,0) SCFT on a Riemann surface with arbitrary regular untwisted and twisted punctures. The 6d theory has a group of mutually…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-01 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Max Hubner , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

We investigate the landscape of 6d $\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ D-type orbi-instanton superconformal field theories (SCFTs) and their torus compactifications to four-dimensional class $\mathcal{S}$ theories. By analysing a general class of 6d…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-05 Jiakang Bao , Noppadol Mekareeya , Gabi Zafrir , Hao Y. Zhang

Supersymmetric Gauge-Higgs Unification is a well-motivated new physics scenario, both in heterotic model building and from the perspective of higher-dimensional Grand Unified Theories. When combined with radion mediated supersymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Felix Brummer , Sylvain Fichet , Arthur Hebecker , Sabine Kraml

The feasibility of a classification-by-rank program for modular categories follows from the Rank-Finiteness Theorem. We develop arithmetic, representation theoretic and algebraic methods for classifying modular categories by rank. As an…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2016-03-23 Paul Bruillard , Siu-Hung Ng , Eric C. Rowell , Zhenghan Wang

We generalize recent methods regarding the construction of complete prepotentials of five dimensional SCFTs to two classes of rank-$N$ theories, i.e. the $X_{1,N}$ and the UV fixed point of the $SU(N+1)_0+2(N+1)$F gauge theories. Their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-27 Francesco Mignosa

Among the elementary building blocks in the atomic classification of 5d SCFTs there are 5d bifundamental conformal matter theories of various kinds. In this work we study the Higgs branch of these models and of the corresponding molecules…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-25 Mario De Marco , Michele Del Zotto , Julius F. Grimminger , Andrea Sangiovanni