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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 obtain the elliptic curve and the Seiberg-Witten differential for an $N=2$ superconformal field theory which has an $E_8$ global symmetry at the strong coupling point $\tau=e^{\pi i/3}$. The differential has 120 poles corresponding to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Joseph A. Minahan , Dennis Nemeschansky

We conjecture that decoupling relations in the operator product expansion of a 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theory (SCFT) are encoded by an algebro-geometric object: a bifiltered affine scheme. We demonstrate how this scheme…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Monica Jinwoo Kang , Craig Lawrie , Jaewon Song

The superconformal index of a 4d gauge theory is computed by a matrix integral arising from localization of the supersymmetric path integral on S^3 x S^1 to the saddle point. As the radius of the circle goes to zero, it is natural to expect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Abhijit Gadde , Wenbin Yan

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

We discuss a novel UV completion of a class of Argyres-Douglas (AD) theories in the $\Omega$-background by its embedding into the renormalisation group flow from five dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal field theories (SCFT) on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-05 Giulio Bonelli , Pavlo Gavrylenko , Ideal Majtara , Alessandro Tanzini

We show that the non-gravitational sectors of certain 6d and 5d supergravity theories can be decomposed into superconformal field theories (SCFTs) which are coupled together by pairwise identifying and gauging mutual global symmetries. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-02 Hirotaka Hayashi , Patrick Jefferson , Hee-Cheol Kim , Kantaro Ohmori , Cumrun Vafa

The four point function of Conformal Field Theories (CFT's) with global symmetry gives rise to multiple crossing symmetry constraints. We explicitly study the correlator of four scalar operators transforming in the fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Alessandro Vichi

We study five-point correlation functions of scalar operators in d-dimensional conformal field theories. We develop a new approach to computing the five-point conformal blocks for exchanged primary operators of arbitrary spin by introducing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-04 David Poland , Valentina Prilepina , Petar Tadić

The superconformal index is an important invariant of superconformal field theories. In this note we refine the superconformal index by inserting the charge conjugation operator C. We construct a matrix integral for this charged index for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Benjamin I. Zwiebel

We study CFT data of 3-dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs) arising from wrapped two M5-branes on closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Via so-called 3d/3d correspondence, central charges of these SCFTs are related to a $SL(2)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Jin-Beom Bae , Dongmin Gang , Jaehoon Lee

We present prescriptions for obtaining the central charges, $a$ and $c$, of a four dimensional superconformal quantum field theory from the superconformal index. At infinite $N$, for holographic theories dual to Sasaki-Einstein 5-manifolds…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-11 Arash Arabi Ardehali , James T. Liu , Phillip Szepietowski

We consider the superconformal index of class S theories of type D, which arise by compactification of the (2,0) D_n theories on a punctured Riemann surface C. We also allow for the presence of twist lines on C associated to the Z_2 outer…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-04 Madalena Lemos , Wolfger Peelaers , Leonardo Rastelli

The computation of the emitted radiation by an accelerated external particle can be addressed in a gauge theory with the insertion of a Wilson loop. With the addition of conformal symmetry this problem is consistently formalized in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Francesco Galvagno

We study supersymmetric solutions of matter-coupled $F(4)$ gauged supergravity in the forms of $AdS_2\times S^3$- and $AdS_3\times S^2$-sliced domain walls with a non-vanishing two-form field from the supergravity multiplet. These two types…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-20 Parinya Karndumri

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

We perform a Wick rotation and analytic continuation from global AdS$_{d+1}$ to static dS$_{d+1}$, yielding CFT$_d$ generators with a nonstandard adjoint action tied to dS bulk coordinates. To reproduce the real-scalar two-point function,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-23 Xing Huang , Chen-Te Ma

The superconformal index for N=2 5d theories contains a non-perturbative part arising from 5d instantonic operators which coincides with the Nekrasov instanton partition function. In this note, for pure gauge theories, we elaborate on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Diego Rodriguez-Gomez , Gabi Zafrir

Making use of the exact solutions of the $N=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories we construct new classes of superconformal field theories (SCFTs) by fine-tuning the moduli parameters and bringing the theories to critical points. In the case of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Tohru Eguchi , Kentaro Hori

A well-developed classification program for 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ super conformal field theories (SCFTs) leverages Seiberg-Witten geometry on the Coulomb branch of vacua; theories are arranged by increasing $\mathfrak{rank}$, the complex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-11 Anirudh Deb , Carlo Meneghelli , Leonardo Rastelli