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We formulate geometric conditions necessary for engineering 5d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) via M-theory compactification on a local Calabi-Yau 3-fold. Extending the classification of the rank 1 cases, which are realized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-05 Patrick Jefferson , Sheldon Katz , Hee-Cheol Kim , Cumrun Vafa

We determine all 5d SCFTs upto rank three by studying RG flows of 5d KK theories. Our analysis reveals the existence of new rank one and rank two 5d SCFTs not captured by previous classifications. In addition to that, we provide for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-31 Lakshya Bhardwaj

Global symmetry anomalies of a quantum field theory (QFT) can be packaged as specific couplings of a higher-dimensional symmetry theory (SymTh). In this work we show that for 5D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) engineered from M-theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Vivek Chakrabhavi , Mirjam Cvetič , Jonathan J. Heckman , Shani Meynet

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

We study (1,0) and (2,0) 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) that can be constructed in F-theory. Quite surprisingly, all of them involve an orbifold singularity C^2 / G with G a discrete subgroup of U(2). When G is a subgroup of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Jonathan J. Heckman , David R. Morrison , Cumrun Vafa

Orbifold singularities of M-theory constitute the building blocks of a broad class of supersymmetric quantum field theories (SQFTs). In this paper we show how the local data of these geometries determines global data on the resulting higher…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-12 Mirjam Cvetič , Jonathan J. Heckman , Max Hübner , Ethan Torres

Compactifications of 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) on four-manifolds generate a large class of novel 2d quantum field theories. We consider in detail the case of the rank one simple non-Higgsable cluster 6D SCFTs. On the tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-20 Fabio Apruzzi , Falk Hassler , Jonathan J. Heckman , Ilarion V. Melnikov

Six-dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs) have an atomic classification in terms of elementary building blocks, conformal systems that generalize matter and can be fused together to form all known 6d SCFTs in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-10 Mario De Marco , Michele Del Zotto , Michele Graffeo , Andrea Sangiovanni

Exact results are derived for 5d SCFTs with holographic duals in Type IIB supergravity. These theories have relevant deformations that flow to linear quiver gauge theories, with the number of nodes large in the large-$N$ limits described by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Christoph F. Uhlemann

Five- and four-dimensional superconformal field theories with eight supercharges arise from canonical threefold singularities in M-theory and Type IIB string theory, respectively. We study their Coulomb and Higgs branches using crepant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-02 Cyril Closset , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Yi-Nan Wang

We consider the dimensional reduction on a torus of the family of 6d $(1,0)$ SCFTs UV completing an $so(N)$ gauge theory with $N-8$ vector hypermultiplets. These SCFTs are known to possess a rich structure of discrete symmetries, notably…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-04 Gabi Zafrir

Detailed studies of four dimensional N=2 superconformal field theories (SCFT) defined by isolated complete intersection singularities are performed: we compute the Coulomb branch spectrum, Seiberg-Witten solutions and central charges. Most…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-22 Yifan Wang , Dan Xie , Stephen S. -T. Yau , Shing-Tung Yau

We study 6d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) compactified on a circle with arbitrary twists. The theories obtained after compactification, often referred to as 5d Kaluza-Klein (KK) theories, can be viewed as starting points for RG…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Patrick Jefferson , Hee-Cheol Kim , Houri-Christina Tarazi , Cumrun Vafa

2-group symmetries arise when 1-form symmetries and 0-form symmetries of a theory mix with each other under group multiplication. We discover the existence of 2-group symmetries in 5d N=1 abelian gauge theories arising on the (non-extended)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-17 Fabio Apruzzi , Lakshya Bhardwaj , Jihwan Oh , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

We show that all 5d balanced (ADE-shaped) special unitary quivers with no Chern-Simons level admit a UV completion which is a 5d conformal matter SCFT. We give explicit local Calabi-Yau threefolds realizing each of these models in M-theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-06 Antoine Bourget , Mario De Marco , Michele Del Zotto , Julius F. Grimminger , Andrea Sangiovanni

We systematically study 4D $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) that can be constructed via type IIB string theory on isolated hypersurface singularities (IHSs) embedded in $\mathbb{C}^4$. We show that if a theory in this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Matthew Buican , Hongliang Jiang

We study the compactification of 5d SCFTs to 4d on a circle with a twist in a discrete global symmetry element of these SCFTs. We present evidence that this leads to various 4d N=2 isolated SCFTs. These include many known theories as well…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-25 Gabi Zafrir

In this work, we study compactifications of 6d $(1,0)$ SCFTs, in particular those of conformal matter type, on K\"ahler 4-manifolds. We show how this can be realized via wrapping M5 branes on 4-cycles of non-compact Calabi-Yau fourfolds…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-10 Jin Chen , Zhuo Chen , Wei Cui , Babak Haghighat

Recently, an atomic classification scheme of 5d SCFTs has been proposed, relying on the identification of indecomposable building blocks that can be fused together to produce large classes of 5d SCFTs. These novel SCFTs are known as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Mario De Marco , Michele Del Zotto , Michele Graffeo , Andrea Sangiovanni

We study a set of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) $\widehat{\Gamma}(G)$ labeled by a pair of simply-laced Lie groups $\Gamma$ and $G$. They are constructed out of gauging a number of $\mathcal{D}_p(G)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-12 Monica Jinwoo Kang , Craig Lawrie , Jaewon Song