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In these notes we attempt to give a pedagogical introduction to the work of Seiberg and Witten on S-duality and the exact results of N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories with and without matter. The first half is devoted to a review of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 L. Alvarez-Gaume , S. F. Hassan

A supersymmetric quantum mechanical model is constructed for BPS states bound to surface operators in five dimensional SU(r) gauge theories using D-brane engineering. This model represents the effective action of a certain D2-brane…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-13 U. Bruzzo , W. -y. Chuang , D. -E. Diaconescu , M. Jardim , G. Pan , Y. Zhang

We study low-energy aspects of 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ $Spin(N)$ gauge theories with matters in vector and (conjugate) spinor representations. Extending the construction of the 4d $\mathcal{N}=1$ $Spin(N)$ Seiberg duality, we find 3d magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-12 Keita Nii

We study type-B conformal anomalies associated with $\frac{1}{2}$-BPS Coulomb-branch operators in 4D $\mathcal N=2$ superconformal field theories. When the vacuum preserves the conformal symmetry these anomalies coincide with the two-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-09 Vasilis Niarchos , Constantinos Papageorgakis , Elli Pomoni

We propose a new class of infrared dualities relating three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ $USp(2N)$ Chern--Simons SQCD to planar Abelian quiver gauge theories. These dual descriptions are constructed via real mass deformations of established…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-11 Sergio Benvenuti , Vittorio Cagioni , Simone Rota , Anant Shri

We demonstrate the agreement between the Higgs branches of two N=2 theories proposed by Argyres and Seiberg to be S-dual, namely the SU(3) gauge theory with six quarks, and the SU(2) gauge theory with one pair of quarks coupled to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-15 Davide Gaiotto , Andrew Neitzke , Yuji Tachikawa

We study the 3-point functions of gauge-invariant scalar operators in four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal quiver theories using supersymmetric localization in the planar limit of a large number of colors. By exploiting a web of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 M. Billo , M. Frau , A. Lerda , A. Pini , P. Vallarino

We give a microscopic two dimensional ${\cal N}=(2,2)$ gauge theory description of arbitrary M2-branes ending on $N_f$ M5-branes wrapping a punctured Riemann surface. These realize surface operators in four dimensional ${\cal N}=2$ field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-24 Jaume Gomis , Bruno Le Floch

Four dimensional N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories with unitary gauge groups and matter in the adjoint and fundamental representations give rise to a series of non-trivial fixed points with an ADE classification. Many of these models…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-23 David Kutasov , Jennifer Lin

Recently, a large class of 3d $\mathcal{N} = 2$ gauge theories with mixed Chern-Simons levels, corresponding to plumbing 3-manifolds, has been identified. In this paper we generalize these theories by including in their content chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-25 Shi Cheng , Piotr Sułkowski

This is the 5th article in the collection of reviews "Exact results on N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories", ed. J. Teschner. We review the supersymmetric localization of $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories on curved backgrounds in four dimensions using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-06 Vasily Pestun

We study 2d $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ quiver gauge theories without flavor nodes. There is a special class of quivers whose gauge group ranks stay positive in any duality frame. We illustrate this with the Abelian Kronecker quiver and the Abelian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-19 Peng Zhao , Hao Zou

We survey and compare recent approaches to the computation of the partition functions and correlators of chiral BPS observables in $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theories on ALE spaces based on quiver varieties and the minimal resolution $X_k$ of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Ugo Bruzzo , Francesco Sala , Richard J. Szabo

Starting from mirror pairs consisting only of linear (framed A-type) quivers, we demonstrate that a wide class of three-dimensional quiver gauge theories with N=4 supersymmetry and their mirror duals can be obtained by suitably gauging…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-16 Anindya Dey , Amihay Hanany , Peter Koroteev , Noppadol Mekareeya

Seiberg-like duality of three dimensional N=2 Chern-Simons-Matter quiver gauge theory is shown to have a chiral double tropical cluster algebra structure. We use cluster algebra results to study combinatorial aspects of these theories such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-20 Dan Xie

We consider $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric $\text{SU}(2)$ gauge theory with $N_f=4$ massive hypermultiplets. The duality group of this theory contains transformations acting on the UV-coupling $\tau_{\text{UV}}$ as well as on the running…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-09 Johannes Aspman , Elias Furrer , Jan Manschot

We find a large class of two-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(0,2)$ SCFTs obtained by compactifying four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ quiver gauge theories on a Riemann surface. We study these theories using anomalies and $c$-extremization. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-07 Francesco Benini , Nikolay Bobev , P. Marcos Crichigno

We study N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theories with gauge group SU(2) coupled to fundamental flavours, covering all asymptotically free and conformal cases. We re-derive, from the conformal field theory perspective, the differential equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Sujay K. Ashok , Dileep P. Jatkar , Renjan R. John , Madhusudhan Raman , Jan Troost

We continue our analysis of bad theories, focusing on quiver theories with bad unitary and special unitary gauge groups in three dimensions. By extending the dualization algorithm we prove that the partition function of bad linear quivers…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-06 Simone Giacomelli , Chiung Hwang , Fabio Marino , Sara Pasquetti , Matteo Sacchi

We study $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories on four-dimensional manifolds that admit a Killing vector $v$ with isolated fixed points. It is possible to deform these theories by coupling position-dependent background fields to the flavor current…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-21 Usman Naseer , Charles Thull