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We develop a new approach to extracting the physical consequences of S-duality of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills (SYM) and its string theory dual, based on $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$ spectral theory. We observe that CFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Scott Collier , Eric Perlmutter

We propose a generalization of S-folds to 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories. This construction is motivated by the classification of rank one 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ super-conformal field theories (SCFTs), which we reproduce from D3-branes probing a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-07 Fabio Apruzzi , Simone Giacomelli , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

We propose a dual formulation for the S Matrix of N = 4 SYM. The dual provides a basis for the "leading singularities" of scattering amplitudes to all orders in perturbation theory, which are sharply defined, IR safe data that uniquely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-22 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Freddy Cachazo , Clifford Cheung , Jared Kaplan

We study dualities for $3d$ $\text{U}(N_{c})_k$ chiral SQCD with $D_{n+2}$-type superpotential, with $n$ odd. We give a complete classification of such dualities in terms of the number of fundamentals and anti-fundamentals and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Antonio Amariti , Davide Morgante

We introduce several families of $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ UV boundary conditions in 3d $\mathcal N=4$ gauge theories and study their IR images in sigma-models to the Higgs and Coulomb branches. In the presence of Omega deformations, a UV…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Mathew Bullimore , Tudor Dimofte , Davide Gaiotto , Justin Hilburn

We study new Seiberg-like dualities for 1d $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories -- that is, supersymmetric gauged quantum mechanics -- with unitary gauge group and (anti)fundamental matter in chiral and fermi multiplets, and with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-03 Cyril Closset , James Wynne

Four-dimensional N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories with two adjoints and a quartic superpotential are believed, from AdS/CFT duality, to have SL(2,Z) invariance. In this note we review an old, unpublished argument for this property, based…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Philip C. Argyres , Ken Intriligator , Robert G. Leigh , Matthew J. Strassler

The tree-level q-map assigns to a projective special real (PSR) manifold of dimension $n-1\geq 0$, a quaternionic K\"{a}hler (QK) manifold of dimension $4n+4$. It is known that the resulting QK manifold admits a $(3n+5)$-dimensional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Vicente Cortés , Iván Tulli

We study Abelian $S$-duality of Maxwell theory on $A$-type asymptotically locally Euclidean (ALE) spaces. Unlike on closed four-manifolds, the Maxwell path integral on an ALE space is not naturally a scalar partition function. Rather, it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 Mohamed M. Anber

We use 3d bosonization dualities to derive new non-supersymmetric dualities between bosonic quiver theories in $2+1$ dimensions. It is shown that such dualities are a natural non-Abelian generalization of the bosonic particle-vortex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Kyle Aitken , Andrew Baumgartner , Andreas Karch

We consider the 4d superconformal index for ${\cal N}=2$ gauge theories on $S^1 \times L(r,1)$, where $L(r,1)$ is a Lens space. We focus on a one-parameter slice of the three-dimensional fugacity space and in that sector we show S-duality.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Luis F. Alday , Mathew Bullimore , Martin Fluder

In this paper we give a field theory explanation of two confining dualities that have been proposed in the literature based on exact results from supersymmetric localization. The first confining model under investigation is 4d $SU(N_c+1)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-27 Antonio Amariti , Fabio Mantegazza , Davide Morgante

We suggest a new duality between a pair of 3d N = 5 SCFTs, one of ABJ type and one based on the exceptional superalgebra F (4). Our main evidence for the proposed duality is the matching of the superconformal index. In addition to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-07 Ki-Hong Lee , Belal Nazzal , Gabi Zafrir

We study a realization of S dualities of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ class $\mathcal{S}$ theories based on BPS graphs. S duality transformations of the UV curve are explicitly expressed as a sequence of topological transitions of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-26 Dongmin Gang , Pietro Longhi , Masahito Yamazaki

We consider arbitrary embeddings of surface operators in a pure, non-supersymmetric abelian gauge theory on spin (non-spin) four-manifolds. For any surface operator with a priori simultaneously non-vanishing parameters, we explicitly show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Meng-Chwan Tan

We study dualities for 3d $\mathcal{N} = 2$ $SU(N_c)$ SQCD at Chern-Simons level $k$ in presence of an adjoint with polynomial superpotential. The dualities are dubbed chiral because there is a different amount of fundamentals $N_f$ and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Antonio Amariti , Marco Fazzi

Gauge theories in four dimensions can exhibit interesting low energy phenomena, such as infrared enhancements of global symmetry. We explore a class of 4d N=1 gauge theories arising from a construction that is motivated by duality walls in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Ivan Garozzo , Noppadol Mekareeya , Matteo Sacchi , Gabi Zafrir

We consider (3+1)-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric QED with two flavors of fundamental hypermultiplets. This theory supports 1/2-BPS domain walls and flux tubes (strings), as well as their 1/4-BPS junctions. The effective (2+1)-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-27 M. Shifman , A. Yung

In this paper we study 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ $SU(N)$ confining gauge theories with a matter field in the rank-two index symmetric representation. The models found here are obtained from the application of the duplication formula for hyperbolic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-01 Antonio Amariti , Fabio Mantegazza

The D theory is a $\mathcal{N}=2$ conformal SYM theory in four dimensions with gauge group SU($N$), four matter hypermultiplets in the fundamental and two in the anti-symmetric representation, and a flavor symmetry that contains a U(4)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-08 M. Billo , M. Frau , A. Lerda , A. Pini , P. Vallarino