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We describe a procedure for classifying 4D N=2 superconformal theories of the type introduced by Davide Gaiotto. Any punctured curve, C, on which the 6D (2,0) SCFT is compactified, may be decomposed into 3-punctured spheres, connected by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Oscar Chacaltana , Jacques Distler

We classify rank zero 5d SCFTs geometrically engineered from M-theory on quasi-homogeneous compound Du Val isolated threefold singularities. For all such theories, we characterize the Higgs Branch, by computing the dimension, the continuous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-08 Mario De Marco , Andrea Sangiovanni , Roberto Valandro

Motivated by its potential use in constraining the structure of 6D renormalization group flows, we determine the low energy dilaton-axion effective field theory of conformal and global symmetry breaking in 6D conformal field theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-26 Jonathan J. Heckman , Sandipan Kundu , Hao Y. Zhang

We extend the analysis of arXiv:2208.11703 to the 6d $(1,0)$ SCFTs known as massive E-string theories, which can be engineered in massive Type IIA with $8-n_0<8$ D8-branes close to an O8$^-$ (or O8$^*$ if $n_0=8,9$). For each choice of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-16 Marco Fazzi , Simone Giacomelli , Suvendu Giri

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

We construct three-dimensional N=2 Chern-Simons-quiver theories which are holographically dual to the M-theory Freund-Rubin solutions AdS_4 x V_{5,2}/Z_k (with or without torsion G-flux), where V_{5,2} is a homogeneous Sasaki-Einstein…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-15 Dario Martelli , James Sparks

Starting from a general $\mathcal{N} = 2$ SCFT, we study the network of $\mathcal{N} = 1$ SCFTs obtained from relevant deformations by nilpotent mass parameters. We also study the case of flipper field deformations where the mass parameters…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-05 Fabio Apruzzi , Falk Hassler , Jonathan J. Heckman , Thomas B. Rochais

We classify three dimensional isolated weighted homogeneous rational complete intersection singularities, which define many new four dimensional N=2 superconformal field theories. We also determine the mini-versal deformation of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-28 Bingyi Chen , Dan Xie , Shing-Tung Yau , Stephen S. -T. Yau , Huaiqing Zuo

A number of N=2 gauge theories can be realized by brane configurations in Type IIA string theory. One way of solving them involves lifting the brane configuration to M-theory. In this paper we present an alternative way of analyzing a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Anton Kapustin

We propose Type IIB 5-brane configurations that engineer the 6d $\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ SCFTs with $SO(N)$ gauge symmetry coupled to a single tensor multiplet on a circle, by considering RG flows on Higgs branches of $D$-type conformal matter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Hee-Cheol Kim , Sung-Soo Kim , Kimyeong Lee

Recent work on 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) has established an intricate correspondence between certain Higgs branch deformations and nilpotent orbits of flavor symmetry algebras associated with T-branes. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-29 Falk Hassler , Jonathan J. Heckman , Thomas B. Rochais , Tom Rudelius , Hao Y. Zhang

It has been recently shown that the celebrated SCFT$_4$/VOA$_2$ correspondence can be bridged via three-dimensional field theories arising from a specific R-symmetry twisted circle reduction. We apply this twisted reduction to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-07 Arash Arabi Ardehali , Dongmin Gang , Neville Joshua Rajappa , Matteo Sacchi

Compactification of 6d N=(2,0) theory of type G on a punctured Riemann surface has been effectively used to understand S-dualities of 4d N=2 theories. We can further introduce branch cuts on the Riemann surface across which the worldvolume…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-21 Yuji Tachikawa

We study 4d exceptional S-fold SCFTs obtained from the 6d $(2,0)$ theories of type $E_{6,7,8}$. We show that all but one of these theories are discrete gaugings of free theories because they do not admit a consistent charge lattice. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-22 Antonio Amariti , Simone Rota

We survey a number of results regarding the representation theory of $W$-algebras and their connection with the resent development of the four dimensional $N=2$ superconformal field theories in physics.

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Tomoyuki Arakawa

We study 4D N=2 superconformal theories that arise from the compactification of 6D N=(2,0) theories of type A_{2N-1} on a Riemann surface C, in the presence of punctures twisted by a Z_2 outer automorphism. We describe how to do a complete…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-18 Oscar Chacaltana , Jacques Distler , Yuji Tachikawa

This is the first article in the collection of reviews "Exact results on N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories", ed. J. Teschner. It describes how large families of field theories with N=2 supersymmetry can be described by means of Lagrangian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-23 Davide Gaiotto

We employ a non-compact gauging of four-dimensional maximal supergravity to construct a two-parameter family of AdS$_4$ J-fold solutions preserving $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetry. All solutions preserve $\mathfrak{u}(1)\times\mathfrak{u}(1)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-18 Nikolay Bobev , Fridrik Freyr Gautason , Jesse van Muiden

We study 2d $\mathcal{N}=(0,2)$ and $\mathcal{N}=(0,4)$ theories derived from compactifying class $\mathcal{S}$ theories on $S^2$ with a topological twist. We present concise expressions for the elliptic genera of both classes of theories,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-24 Satoshi Nawata , Yiwen Pan , Jiahao Zheng

We study brane configurations which correspond to N=1 field theories in four dimensions. By inverting the order of the NS 5-branes and D6-branes, a check on dualities in four dimensional theories can be made. We consider a brane…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Radu Tatar