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This is the first in a series of papers on the search for the 2D CFT description of a large class of 4D $\mathcal{N} = 1$ gauge theories. Here, we identify the 2D CFT symmetry algebra and its representations, namely the conformal blocks of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Vladimir Mitev , Elli Pomoni

Compactifications of 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) on four-manifolds generate a large class of novel 2d quantum field theories. We consider in detail the case of the rank one simple non-Higgsable cluster 6D SCFTs. On the tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-20 Fabio Apruzzi , Falk Hassler , Jonathan J. Heckman , Ilarion V. Melnikov

We study a rich set of four-dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs) with both central charges identical: $a = c$. These are constructed via the diagonal $\mathcal{N}=2$ or $\mathcal{N}=1$ gauging of the flavor symmetry $G$ of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-14 Monica Jinwoo Kang , Craig Lawrie , Ki-Hong Lee , Jaewon Song

In a recent paper, we proposed closed-form expressions for the superconformal indices of the (A_1, A_{2n-3}) and (A_1, D_{2n}) Argyres-Douglas (AD) superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in the Schur limit. Following up on our results, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-06 Matthew Buican , Takahiro Nishinaka

We systematically explore the space of renormalization group flows of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) triggered by relevant deformations, as well as by coupling to free chiral multiplets with relevant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-23 Minseok Cho , Kazunobu Maruyoshi , Emily Nardoni , Jaewon Song

Building on recent progress in the study of compactifications of $6d$ $(1,0)$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) on Riemann surfaces to $4d$ $\mathcal{N}=1$ theories, we initiate a systematic study of compactifications of $5d$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-11 Matteo Sacchi , Orr Sela , Gabi Zafrir

In theories with extended supersymmetry the protected observables of UV superconformal fixed points are found in a number of contexts to be encoded in the BPS solitons along an IR Coulomb-like phase. For six-dimensional SCFTs such a role is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Michele Del Zotto , Guglielmo Lockhart

Recent work on cosmological amplitudes has established reality conditions (derived from unitarity) for general particle-creation processes in flat FLRW cosmologies, in the Bunch-Davies wavefunction. In light of these results, we propose a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-08 Ayngaran Thavanesan , Aron C. Wall

We explore the consequence of generalized symmetries in four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal field theories. First, we classify all possible supersymmetric gauge theories with a simple gauge group that have a nontrivial one-form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-07 Monica Jinwoo Kang , Craig Lawrie , Ki-Hong Lee , Jaewon Song

We show that the non-gravitational sectors of certain 6d and 5d supergravity theories can be decomposed into superconformal field theories (SCFTs) which are coupled together by pairwise identifying and gauging mutual global symmetries. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-02 Hirotaka Hayashi , Patrick Jefferson , Hee-Cheol Kim , Kantaro Ohmori , Cumrun Vafa

We use F-theory to classify possibly all six-dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs). This involves a two step process: We first classify all possible tensor branches allowed in F-theory (which correspond to allowed collections of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Jonathan J. Heckman , David R. Morrison , Tom Rudelius , Cumrun Vafa

It is believed that the two-dimensional massless $\mathcal{N}=2$ Wess--Zumino model becomes the $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theory (SCFT) in the infrared (IR) limit. We examine this theoretical conjecture of the Landau--Ginzburg…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-12-06 Okuto Morikawa , Hiroshi Suzuki

We discover a four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric field theory that is dual to the $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory with gauge group $SU(2n+1)$ for each $n$. The dual theory is constructed through the diagonal gauging of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-13 Monica Jinwoo Kang , Craig Lawrie , Ki-Hong Lee , Jaewon Song

We compute exact 2- and 3-point functions of chiral primaries in four-dimensional N=2 superconformal field theories, including all perturbative and instanton contributions. We demonstrate that these correlation functions are nontrivial and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Marco Baggio , Vasilis Niarchos , Kyriakos Papadodimas

Enhancement of global symmetry and supersymmetry in the infrared is one of the most intriguing phenomena in quantum field theory. We investigate such phenomena in a large class of three dimensional superconformal field theories, known as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Ivan Garozzo , Gabriele Lo Monaco , Noppadol Mekareeya , Matteo Sacchi

Using the F-theory realization, we identify a subclass of 6d (1,0) SCFTs whose compactification on a Riemann surface leads to N = 1 4d SCFTs where the moduli space of the Riemann surface is part of the moduli space of the theory. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 David R. Morrison , Cumrun Vafa

We investigate multi-field multicritical scalar theories using CFT constraints on two- and three-point functions combined with the Schwinger-Dyson equation. This is done in general and without assuming any symmetry for the models, which we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Alessandro Codello , Mahmoud Safari , Gian Paolo Vacca , Omar Zanusso

We determine all 5d SCFTs upto rank three by studying RG flows of 5d KK theories. Our analysis reveals the existence of new rank one and rank two 5d SCFTs not captured by previous classifications. In addition to that, we provide for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-31 Lakshya Bhardwaj

One-dimensional sigma-models with N supersymmetries are considered. For conventional supersymmetries there must be N-1 complex structures satisfying a Clifford algebra and the constraints on the target space geometry can be formulated in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 C. M. Hull

We generalize recent construction of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ SCFT from wrapping six-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(2,0)$ theory on a Riemann surface to the case of $D$-type with outer-automorphism twists. This construction allows us to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Prarit Agarwal , Jaewon Song