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We consider N = 2 superconformal field theory with following properties: a) Coulomb branch operators have fractional scaling dimensions, b) there are exact marginal deformations . The weakly coupled gauge theory descriptions are found by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-12 Dan Xie , Shing-Tung Yau

Class-S theories are four-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric field theories constructed by the reduction of a (2,0) six-dimensional theory on a punctured Riemann surface C (called the UV curve). A basic degeneration limit of the surface C is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-07 Arel Genish , Vladimir Narovlansky

Let $\mathcal{S}$ be a small category, and suppose that we are given two (non-full) subcategories $\mathcal{S}^{sm}$ and $\mathcal{S}^{cl}$ that generate all morphisms of $\mathcal{S}$ under composition in the same way as morphisms of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Luca Terenzi

We construct 4D $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories on an infinite family of 4D toric manifolds with the topology of connected sums of $S^2 \times S^2$. These theories are constructed through the dimensional reduction along a non-trivial $U(1)$-fiber…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Guido Festuccia , Jian Qiu , Jacob Winding , Maxim Zabzine

We give an account of the theory of factorization spaces, categories, functors, and algebras, following the approach of [Ras1]. We apply these results to give geometric constructions of factorization $\mathbb{E}_n$ algebras describing mixed…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Dylan Butson

We determine the low energy description of N=2 supersymmetric SU(k) product group theories with bifundamental and fundamental matter based on M-theory fivebrane configurations. The dependence on moduli and scales of the coefficients in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-15 J. Erlich , A. Naqvi , L. Randall

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 explain the physical origin of a curious property of algebras $\mathcal{A}_\mathfrak{q}$ which encode the rotation-equivariant fusion ring of half-BPS line defects in four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric quantum field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-28 Davide Gaiotto , Gregory W. Moore , Andrew Neitzke , Fei Yan

Non-unique factorizations theory, which started in algebraic number theory, over the years has expanded into several areas of mathematics. Here, we propose yet another branching. We show that some concepts of factorizations theory, such as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-02-19 Jan Sliwa

We extend the formula for partition functions of N=2 superconformal gauge theories on S^3 obtained recently by Kapustin, Willett and Yaakov, to incorporate matter fields with arbitrary R-charge assignments. We use the result to check that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-04 Naofumi Hama , Kazuo Hosomichi , Sungjay Lee

We study the superconformal index of five-dimensional SCFTs and the sphere partition function of four-dimensional gauge theories with eight supercharges in the presence of co-dimension two half-BPS defects. We derive a prescription which is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-10 Davide Gaiotto , Hee-Cheol Kim

Recently, a non-hyperelliptic curve describing the Coulomb branch of N=2 SUSY $SU(N_c)$ Yang-Mills theory with an antisymmetric tensor matter was proposed using a configuration of a single M theory five-brane. We study the singular surface…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-25 Hodaka Oda , Shigemitsu Tomizawa , Norisuke Sakai , Tadakatsu Sakai

We construct a lattice model for two-dimensional N=(2,2) supersymmetric QCD (SQCD), with the matter multiplets belonging to the fundamental or anti-fundamental representation of the gauge group U(N) or SU(N). The construction is based on…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-03-11 Fumihiko Sugino

In the context of class S theories and 4D/2D duality relations there, we discuss the skein relations of general topological defects on the 2D side which are expected to be counterparts of composite surface-line operators in 4D class S…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-02 Noriaki Watanabe

We construct a class of non-invertible duality defects, in (2+1)d quantum field theories, arising from half-spacetime gauging of a 2-group symmetry. Starting from a parent theory with two discrete and Abelian 0-form symmetries and a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-26 Davide Bason , Wei Cui , Lorenzo Ruggeri

We consider the four dimensional scale invariant N=2 SU quiver gauge theories with USp(2N) ends or SU(2N) ends with antisymmetric matter representations. We argue that these theories are realized as six dimensional A_{2N-1} (0,2) theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-28 Dimitri Nanopoulos , Dan Xie

Type A N-fold supersymmetry of one-dimensional quantum mechanics can be constructed by using sl(2) generators represented on a finite dimensional functional space. Using this sl(2) formalism we show a general method of constructing Type A…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Hideaki Aoyama , Noriko Nakayama , Masatoshi Sato , Toshiaki Tanaka

We show that interval partition functions (transition amplitudes) of three-dimensional $N = 2$ theories admit factorizations into sums of products of hemisphere partition functions with additional normalization factors. We prove the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-30 Boan Zhao , Panos Betzios , Paul Luis Roehl

General half-BPS A-type boundary conditions are formulated for N=2 supersymmetric field theories on compact 3-manifolds with boundary. We observe that under suitable conditions manifolds of the real A-type admitting two complex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Francesco Aprile , Vasilis Niarchos

We prove the $\mathbb{Q}$-factoriality of a nodal hypersurface in $\mathbb{P}^{4}$ of degree $n$ with at most ${\frac{(n-1)^{2}}{4}}$ nodes and the $\mathbb{Q}$-factoriality of a double cover of $\mathbb{P}^{3}$ branched over a nodal…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ivan Cheltsov