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We investigate generalised global symmetries in 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ orthosymplectic quiver gauge theories. Using the superconformal index, we identify a $D_8$ categorical symmetry web in a class of theories featuring $\mathfrak{so}(2N)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-25 William Harding , Noppadol Mekareeya , Zhenghao Zhong

This paper explores 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ quiver gauge theories whose moduli spaces represent nilpotent orbits, S\l odowy slices or, more generally, S\l odowy intersections, which span the Special Pieces of nilcones of Classical or Exceptional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-25 Sam Bennett , 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

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

This paper introduces two operations in quiver gauge theories. The first operation takes a quiver with a permutation symmetry $S_n$ and gives a quiver with adjoint loops. The corresponding 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ Coulomb branches are related by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-27 Amihay Hanany , Guhesh Kumaran , Chunhao Li , Deshuo Liu , Marcus Sperling

Supersymmetric Sp(k) quantum chromodynamics with 8 supercharges in space-time dimensions 3 to 6 can be realised by two different Type II brane configurations in the presence of orientifolds. Consequently, two types of magnetic quivers…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-09 Satoshi Nawata , Marcus Sperling , Hao Ellery Wang , Zhenghao Zhong

We study Higgs branches of field theories with 8 supercharges in 5 and 6 dimensions, focusing on theories realised on 5-brane webs in Type IIB with an O$7^+$ plane, or a D6-D8-NS5 brane system in Type IIA in the presence of an O$8^+$ plane.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-15 Mohammad Akhond , Guillermo Arias-Tamargo , Federico Carta , Julius F. Grimminger , Amihay Hanany

We study Hasse diagrams of moduli spaces of $\mathrm{3d}$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ quiver gauge theories. The goal of this work is twofold: 1) We introduce the notion of inverting a Hasse diagram and conjecture that the Coulomb branch and Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Julius F. Grimminger , Amihay Hanany

This paper addresses a long standing problem - to identify the chiral ring and moduli space (i.e. as an algebraic variety) on the Coulomb branch of an N = 4 superconformal field theory in 2+1 dimensions. Previous techniques involved a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-14 Stefano Cremonesi , Amihay Hanany , Alberto Zaffaroni

We study the Higgs branch moduli space of certain 6d $(1,0)$ SCFTs after gauging their $\mathbb{Z}_2$ Green-Schwarz automorphism. We explain how to read the flavor symmetry of such SCFTs directly from the 6d construction, and we confirm the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-01 Craig Lawrie , Thekla Lepper , Alessandro Mininno

We study the vacuum structure of gauge theories with eight supercharges. It has been recently discovered that in the Higgs branch of $5d$ and $6d$ SQCD theories with eight supercharges, the new massless states, arising when the gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Santiago Cabrera , Amihay Hanany

We consider the Higgs branch of 5d fixed points engineered using brane webs with an O7$^+$-plane. We use the brane construction to propose a set of rules to extract the corresponding magnetic quivers. Such magnetic quivers are generically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Mohammad Akhond , Federico Carta

We analyze exactly marginal deformations of 3d N=4 Lagrangian gauge theories, especially mixed-branch operators with both electric and magnetic charges. These mixed-branch moduli can either belong to products of electric and magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-17 Ioannis Lavdas , Bruno Le Floch

We study moduli spaces of a class of three dimensional N=4 gauge theories which are in one-to-one correspondence with a certain set of ordered pairs of integer partitions. It was found that these theories can be realised on brane intervals…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Amihay Hanany , Noppadol Mekareeya

Three-dimensional Coulomb branches have a prominent role in the study of moduli spaces of supersymmetric gauge theories with $8$ supercharges in $3,4,5$, and $6$ dimensions. Inspired by simply laced $3$d $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Amihay Hanany , Anton Zajac

We explore the Higgs branches of five-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ quiver gauge theories at finite coupling from the paradigm of M-theory on local Calabi-Yau threefolds described as $\mathbb{C}^\ast$-fibrations over local K3's. By properly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-03 Andrés Collinucci , Roberto Valandro

The singularity structure of the Coulomb and Higgs branches of good $3d$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ circular quiver gauge theories (CQGTs) with unitary gauge groups is studied. The central method employed is the Kraft--Procesi transition. CQGTs are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-09 Jamie Rogers , Radu Tatar

The technique of $\textit{orthosymplectic quotient quiver subtraction}$ is introduced for framed orthosymplectic quivers. This involves subtracting an $\textit{orthosymplectic quotient quiver}$ from a framed orthosymplectic $3d\;\mathcal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-27 Sam Bennett , Amihay Hanany , Guhesh Kumaran

In this note we construct magnetic quivers for the known rank-2 four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories. For every rank-1 theory one can find a unitary magnetic quiver; we observe that this is no longer possible at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-20 Antoine Bourget , Julius F. Grimminger , Mario Martone , Gabi Zafrir

For a 3D N=4 gauge theory, turning on the $\Omega$-background in RxR$^2_{\epsilon}$ deforms the Coulomb branch chiral ring into the quantum Coulomb branch algebra, generated by the 1/2-BPS monopoles together with the complex scalar in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Tiantai Chen , Wei Li