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We initiate the systematic investigation of non-flat resolutions of non-minimal singularities in elliptically fibered Calabi--Yau threefolds. Compactification of M-theory on these geometries provides an alternative approach to studying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Fabio Apruzzi , Ling Lin , Christoph Mayrhofer

This paper is the first of a 3-part series that classifies the 5-dimensional Thurston geometries. The present paper (part 1 of 3) summarizes the general classification, giving the full list, an outline of the method, and some illustrative…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-06-09 Andrew Geng

We construct new families of non-toric 5d SCFTs via abelian orbifolds of the Reid Pagoda, including a surprising infinite family of rank-1 theories, that evade all known classifications. Using the McKay correspondence, we derive their BPS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-23 Andrés Collinucci , Fabrizio Del Monte , Mario De Marco , Marina Moleti , Roberto Valandro

A large class of 5d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) can be constructed by integrating out BPS particles from 6d SCFTs compactified on a circle. We describe a general method for extracting the flavor symmetry of any 5d SCFT lying in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-13 Lakshya Bhardwaj

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 determine the higher symmetries of 5d SCFTs engineered from M-theory on a $\mathbb{C}^3 / \Gamma$ background for $\Gamma$ a finite subgroup of $SU(3)$. This resolves a longstanding question as to how to extract this data when the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Michele Del Zotto , Jonathan J. Heckman , Shani Nadir Meynet , Robert Moscrop , Hao Y. Zhang

The classification of 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs boils down to the classification of conical special geometries with closed Reeb orbits (CSG). Under mild assumptions, one shows that the underlying complex space of a CSG is (birational to) an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 Matteo Caorsi , Sergio Cecotti

Compactifying 6d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) to 4d $\mathcal{N}=1$ theories on two-punctured spheres (tubes) and tori with flux is realized using duality domain walls in 5d $\mathcal{N}=1$ Kaluza-Klein (KK) theories, which are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-28 Evyatar Sabag , Matteo Sacchi

We map out and explore the zoo of possible 4d N=1 superconformal theories which are obtained as RG fixed points of N=1 SQCD with N_f fundamental and N_a adjoint matter representations. Using "a-maximization," we obtain exact operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ken Intriligator , Brian Wecht

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

There is a well-known map from 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) to 2d vertex operator algebras (VOAs). The 4d Schur index corresponds to the VOA vacuum character, and must be a solution with integral coefficients of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-20 Justin Kaidi , Mario Martone , Leonardo Rastelli , Mitch Weaver

Gauge-theoretic anomaly cancellation predicts the existence of many 6d SCFTs and little string theories (LSTs) that have not been given a string theory construction so far. In this paper, we provide an explicit construction of all such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Lakshya Bhardwaj

A complete study of local singularities of rank two $\mathcal{N}=2$ Coulomb branch geometry is given. Low energy theory associated with the local singularity is identified: it can be superconformal field theory (SCFT), or IR free gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-06 Dan Xie

We classify all possible charge lattices and 1-form symmetry groups for $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs with characteristic dimension $\varkappa \neq \{1,2\}$. For rank-$r$ SCFTs that are not stacks of lower rank theories the order of the 1-form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-27 Antonio Amariti , Simone Rota

With the eventual aim of classifying renormalization group flows between 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs), we study flows generated by the vevs of "conformal matter," a generalization of conventional hypermultiplets which naturally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Jonathan J. Heckman , Tom Rudelius , Alessandro Tomasiello

We determine 5d $\mathcal{N}=1$ SCFTs originating from 6d $(E_n,E_m)$ conformal matter theories with $n\neq m$ by circle reduction and mass deformations. The marginal geometries are constructed and we derive their combined fiber diagrams…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Max Hubner

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

Magnetic quivers and Hasse diagrams for Higgs branches of rank 1 $4d$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs are provided. These rank 1 theories fit naturally into families of higher rank theories, originating from higher dimensions, which are addressed.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Antoine Bourget , Julius F. Grimminger , Amihay Hanany , Marcus Sperling , Gabi Zafrir , Zhenghao Zhong

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

In this paper we present a beautifully consistent web of evidence for the existence of interacting 4d rank-1 $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs obtained from gauging discrete subgroups of global symmetries of other existing 4d rank-1 $\mathcal{N}=2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-07 Philip C. Argyres , Mario Martone