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We study $4D$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories that arise as the compactification of the six-dimensional $(2,0)$ theory of type $E_6$ on a punctured Riemann surface in the presence of $\mathbb{Z}_2$ outer-automorphism twists.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-28 Oscar Chacaltana , Jacques Distler , Anderson Trimm

This is the writeup of the lectures given at the Winter School "YRISW 2018" to appear in a special issue of JPhysA. In the first part of these lecture notes we review some important facts about 4D $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs. We begin with basic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-03 Elli Pomoni

This paper gives a classification of rank one 5d $\mathcal{N}=1$ and 6d $(1,0)$ SCFTs. The idea is to compactify 5d theory on $S^1$ and 6d theory on $T^2$ to get effective 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ theory. These compactified theories all have a 4d…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-01 Dan Xie

Among the simple Lie algebras, $D_4$ is distinguished as the unique one whose group of outer-automorphisms is bigger than $\mathbb{Z}_2$. We study the compactifications of the $D_4$ (2,0) Theory on a punctured Riemann surface, $C$, with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-12 Oscar Chacaltana , Jacques Distler , Anderson Trimm

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 delineate a procedure to classify 6d N=(1,0) gauge theories composed, in part, of a semi-simple gauge group and hypermultiplets. We classify these theories by requiring that they satisfy some consistency conditions. The primary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-09 Lakshya Bhardwaj

Recent work has established a uniform characterization of most 6D SCFTs in terms of generalized quivers with conformal matter. Compactification of the partial tensor branch deformation of these theories on a $T^2$ leads to 4D $\mathcal{N} =…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-01 Florent Baume , Jonathan J. Heckman , Craig Lawrie

Compactifications of 6d N=(1,0) SCFTs give rise to new 4d N=1 SCFTs and shed light on interesting dualities between such theories. In this paper we continue exploring this line of research by extending the class of compactified 6d theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Jin Chen , Babak Haghighat , Shuwei Liu , Marcus Sperling

In this work, we study compactifications of 6d $(1,0)$ SCFTs, in particular those of conformal matter type, on K\"ahler 4-manifolds. We show how this can be realized via wrapping M5 branes on 4-cycles of non-compact Calabi-Yau fourfolds…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-10 Jin Chen , Zhuo Chen , Wei Cui , Babak Haghighat

Canonical threefold singularities in M-theory and Type IIB string theory give rise to superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in 5d and 4d, respectively. In this paper, we study canonical hypersurface singularities whose resolutions contain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-02 Cyril Closset , Simone Giacomelli , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Yi-Nan Wang

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 study the conditions under which 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) have multiplets housing operators that are chiral with respect to an $\mathcal{N}=1$ subalgebra. Our main focus is on the set of often-ignored and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-20 Anindya Banerjee , Matthew Buican

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 present evidence for a new class of strongly coupled N = 1 superconformal field theories (SCFTs) motivated by F-theory GUT constructions. These SCFTs arise from D3-brane probes of tilted seven-branes which undergo monodromy. In the probe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-08 Jonathan J. Heckman , Yuji Tachikawa , Cumrun Vafa , Brian Wecht

Detailed studies of four dimensional N=2 superconformal field theories (SCFT) defined by isolated complete intersection singularities are performed: we compute the Coulomb branch spectrum, Seiberg-Witten solutions and central charges. Most…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-22 Yifan Wang , Dan Xie , Stephen S. -T. Yau , Shing-Tung Yau

Self-consistent field theory (SCFT) is one of the useful methods to simulate phase separated structures of multi-component polymer systems. In this article, we propose an SCFT for semiflexible polymer melts, where the basic equations for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-04 Yutaka Oya , Toshihiro Kawakatsu

Surface operators are among the most important observables of the 6d $\mathcal{N} = (2,0)$ theory. Here we apply the tools of defect CFT to study local operator insertions into the 1/2-BPS plane. We first relate the 2-point function of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-01 Nadav Drukker , Malte Probst , Maxime Trépanier

We use group theoretic methods to calculate the spectrum of short multiplets around the extremum of N=8 gauged supergravity potential which possesses N=2 supersymmetry and SU(3) global symmetry. Upon uplifting to M-theory, it describes a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Igor Klebanov , Thomas Klose , Arvind Murugan

It is known that some theories of class $S$ are actually factorized into multiple decoupled nontrivial four-dimensional $N=2$ theories. We propose a way of constructing examples of this phenomenon using the physics of half-BPS surface…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-22 Behzat Ergun , Qianyu Hao , Andrew Neitzke , Fei Yan

We refine our previous proposal for systematically classifying 4d rank-1 $\mathcal N=2$ SCFTs by constructing their possible Coulomb branch geometries. Four new recently discussed rank-1 theories, including novel $\mathcal{N}=3$ SCFTs, sit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-10 Philip C. Argyres , Matteo Lotito , Yongchao Lü , Mario Martone