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We study the Coulomb branches of 3d N=4 `star-shaped' quiver gauge theories and their deformation quantizations, by applying algebraic techniques that have been developed in the mathematics and physics literature over the last few years.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Tudor Dimofte , Niklas Garner

M5 branes on a D-type ALE singularity display various phenomena that introduce additional massless degrees of freedom. The M5 branes are known to fractionate on a D-type singularity. Whenever two fractional M5 branes coincide, tensionless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-04 Santiago Cabrera , Amihay Hanany , Marcus Sperling

Even though for generic $\mathcal{N}=1$ theories it is not possible to separate distinct branches of supersymmetric vacua, in this paper we study a special class of $\mathcal{N}=1$ SCFTs, these of Class $\mathcal{S}_k$ for which it is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 Thomas Bourton , Alessandro Pini , Elli Pomoni

We give an explicit formula for the Higgs and Coulomb branch Hilbert series for the class of 3d N=4 superconformal gauge theories T^{\sigma}_{\rho}(G) corresponding to a set of D3 branes ending on NS5 and D5-branes, with or without O3…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Stefano Cremonesi , Amihay Hanany , Noppadol Mekareeya , Alberto Zaffaroni

A three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ gauge theory is constructed whose Higgs branch realizes the affine closure of the cotangent bundle of the minimal nilpotent orbit of $\mathfrak{sl}_n$. This space is a symplectic singularity recently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 Amihay Hanany , Deshuo Liu

A class of 4d $\mathcal{N}=3$ SCFTs can be obtained from gauging a discrete subgroup of the global symmetry group of $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills theory. This discrete subgroup contains elements of both the $SU(4)$ R-symmetry group and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-11 Thomas Bourton , Alessandro Pini , Elli Pomoni

We look at a family of 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ rank-0 orthosymplectic quiver gauge theories. We define a superconformal field theory (SCFT) to be rank-0 if either the Higgs branch or Coulomb branch is trivial. This family of non-linear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-21 Zhenghao Zhong

Consider the $3$-dimensional $\mathcal N=4$ supersymmetric gauge theory associated with a compact Lie group $G$ and its quaternionic representation $\mathbf M$. Physicists study its Coulomb branch, which is a noncompact hyper-K\"ahler…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 Hiraku Nakajima

We present a new family of IR dualities in three space-time dimensions with eight supercharges. In contrast to 3d mirror symmetry, these dualities map Coulomb branches to Coulomb branches and Higgs branches to Higgs branches in the deep IR.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-22 Anindya Dey

We show that the Higgs branch of a four-dimensional Yang-Mills theory, with gauge and matter content summarised by an E_8 quiver diagram, is identical to the generalised Coulomb branch of a four-dimensional superconformal strongly coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Cecilia Albertsson , Bjorn Brinne , Ulf Lindstrom , Rikard von Unge

This paper tests a conjecture on discrete non-Abelian gauging of 3d $\mathcal{N} = 4$ supersymmetric quiver gauge theories. Given a parent quiver with a bouquet of $n$ nodes of rank $1$, invariant under a discrete $S_n$ global symmetry, one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Amihay Hanany , Anton Zajac

Mirror symmetry has proven to be a powerful tool to study several properties of higher dimensional superconformal field theories upon compactification to three dimensions. We propose a quiver description for the mirror theories of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Emanuele Beratto , Simone Giacomelli , Noppadol Mekareeya , Matteo Sacchi

Five- and four-dimensional superconformal field theories with eight supercharges arise from canonical threefold singularities in M-theory and Type IIB string theory, respectively. We study their Coulomb and Higgs branches using crepant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-02 Cyril Closset , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Yi-Nan Wang

We develop a new method for constructing $3d$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ Coulomb branch chiral rings in terms of gauge-invariant generators and relations while making the global symmetry manifest. Our examples generalise to all balanced quivers of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Amihay Hanany , Dominik Miketa

This letter considers 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ (unitary-)orthosymplectic quiver gauge theories originating from Type IIA and Type IIB brane systems with $\mathrm{ON}^0$ planes. Such theories lie outside the scope of present combinatorial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-19 Sam Bennett , Amihay Hanany , Guhesh Kumaran , Lorenzo Mansi

We approach the topic of Classical group nilpotent orbits from the perspective of their moduli spaces, described in terms of Hilbert series and generating functions. We review the established Higgs and Coulomb branch quiver theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-10 Amihay Hanany , Rudolph Kalveks

We build on previous studies of the Higgs and Coulomb branches of SUSY quiver theories having 8 supercharges, including $3d~{\cal N}=4$, and Classical gauge groups. The vacuum moduli spaces of many such theories can be parameterised by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-26 Amihay Hanany , Rudolph Kalveks

We study the Coulomb-branch sector of 3D $\mathcal{N}=4$ gauge theories with half-hypermultiplets in general pseudoreal representations $\mathbf{R}$ ("noncotangent" theories). This yields (short) quantization of the Coulomb branch and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Mykola Dedushenko , Daniel Resnick

We detail the Higgs branches of 6d $(1,0)$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) and little string theories (LSTs) that exhibit supersymmetry-enhancing Higgs branch renormalization group flows to the 6d $(2,0)$ SCFTs and LSTs of type DE.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-06 Craig Lawrie , Lorenzo Mansi

Argyres-Douglas (AD) theories constitute an infinite class of superconformal field theories in four dimensions with a number of interesting properties. We study several new aspects of AD theories engineered in $A$-type class $\mathcal{S}$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-27 Simone Giacomelli , Noppadol Mekareeya , Matteo Sacchi