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We revisit our construction of mirror symmetries for compactifications of Type II superstrings on twisted connected sum $G_2$ manifolds. For a given $G_2$ manifold, we discuss evidence for the existence of mirror symmetries of two kinds:…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-18 Andreas P. Braun , Michele Del Zotto

In this work, we give a purely analytic introduction to the phenomenon of mirror symmetry for quintic threefolds via classical hypergeometric functions and differential equations for them. Starting with a modular map and recent…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Wadim Zudilin

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

In this note we review some of the uses of framed quivers to study BPS invariants of Donaldson-Thomas type. We will mostly focus on non-compact Calabi-Yau threefolds. In certain cases the study of these invariants can be approached as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-12 Michele Cirafici

We provide an explicit planar Abelian dual for three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ $U(N)_k$ SQCD with $F$ fundamental chiral multiplets. This construction covers the entire $(N, F, k)$ parameter space (provided supersymmetry is unbroken),…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-11 Sergio Benvenuti , Riccardo Comi , Gabriel Pedde Ungureanu , Simone Rota , Anant Shri

We construct an $\epsilon$-deformation of W algebras, corresponding to the additive version of quiver $\text{W}_{q,t^{-1}}$ algebras which feature prominently in the 5d version of the BPS/CFT correspondence and refined topological strings…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-15 Fabrizio Nieri , Yegor Zenkevich

We study 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories on closed oriented Seifert manifold---circle bundles over an orbifold Riemann surface---, with a gauge group G given by a product of simply-connected and/or unitary Lie groups. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Cyril Closset , Heeyeon Kim , Brian Willett

In recent years we have learned that several four-dimensional field theories can manifest non-invertible zero-form symmetries generalizing the Kramers-Wannier duality defect of the 2d critical Ising model. Several recent works by various…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-29 Michele Del Zotto , Azeem Hasan , Elias Riedel Gårding

We construct two dimensional gauge theories with $N= (4,4)$ supersymmetry from branes of type IIA string theory. Quantum effects in the two dimensional gauge theory are analyzed by embedding the IIA brane construction into M-theory. We find…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 John Brodie

Brane brick models are Type IIA brane configurations that encode the $2d$ $\mathcal{N}=(0,2)$ gauge theories on the worldvolume of D1-branes probing toric Calabi-Yau 4-folds. We use mirror symmetry to improve our understanding of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-01 Sebastian Franco , Sangmin Lee , Rak-Kyeong Seong , Cumrun Vafa

Seiberg-Witten geometry of mass deformed $\mathcal N=2$ superconformal ADE quiver gauge theories in four dimensions is determined. We solve the limit shape equations derived from the gauge theory and identify the space $\mathfrak M$ of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-21 Nikita Nekrasov , Vasily Pestun

A generic half-BPS surface defect of ${\mathcal N}=4$ supersymmetric U$(N)$ Yang-Mills theory is described by a partition of $N = n_1 + \ldots + n_M$ and a set of $4M$ continuous parameters. We show that such a defect can be realized by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-01 S. K. Ashok , M. Billo , M. Frau , A. Lerda , S. Mahato

We study 4d superconformal indices for a large class of N=1 superconformal quiver gauge theories realized combinatorially as a bipartite graph or a set of "zig-zag paths" on a two-dimensional torus T^2. An exchange of loops, which we call a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-07 Masahito Yamazaki

The modern approach to $m$-form global symmetries in a $d$-dimensional quantum field theory (QFT) entails specifying dimension $d-m-1$ topological generalized symmetry operators which non-trivially link with $m$-dimensional defect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Jonathan J. Heckman , Max Hübner , Ethan Torres , Hao Y. Zhang

We study the matrix models calculating the sphere partition functions of 3d gauge theories with $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetry and a quiver structure of a $\hat D$ Dynkin diagram (where each node is a unitary gauge group). As in the case of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Benjamin Assel , Nadav Drukker , Jan Felix

We consider the quantum UV-IR map for line defects in class $S$ theories of $\mathfrak{gl}(3)$-type. This map computes the protected spin character which counts framed BPS states with spin for the bulk-defect system. We give a geometric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Andrew Neitzke , Fei Yan

We extend the recently proposed symmetry breaking scenario of QCD$_3$ to the so-called "master" $(2+1)$d bosonization duality, which has bosonic and fermionic matter on both ends. Using anomaly arguments, a phase diagram emerges with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Kyle Aitken , Andrew Baumgartner , Changha Choi , Andreas Karch

We show that the Higgs branch of a four-dimensional Yang-Mills theory, with gauge and matter content summarised by an ADE quiver diagram, is identical to the generalised Coulomb branch of a four-dimensional superconformal strongly coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Albertsson , B. Brinne , U. Lindstrom , M. Rocek , R. von Unge

This is the first of a series of papers discussing canonical aspects of the two-dimensional non-linear sigma model in the presence of conformal defects on the world-sheet in the framework of gerbe theory. In the paper, the basic tools of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Rafał R. Suszek

Fibrations of flux backgrounds by supersymmetric cycles are investigated. For an internal six-manifold M with static SU(2) structure and mirror \hat{M}, it is argued that the product M x \hat{M} is doubly fibered by supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-11 Pascal Grange , Sakura Schafer-Nameki