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We relate a number of results in the theory of flat surfaces to BPS spectra of a class of 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric quantum field theories arising from M5 branes wrapped on Riemann surfaces -- $A_1$ class S theories. In particular,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-25 Shamit Kachru , Richard Nally , Arnav Tripathy , Max Zimet

We explore the relationship between four-dimensional N=2 quantum field theories and their associated BPS quivers. For a wide class of theories including super-Yang-Mills theories, Argyres-Douglas models, and theories defined by M5-branes on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-20 Murad Alim , Sergio Cecotti , Clay Cordova , Sam Espahbodi , Ashwin Rastogi , Cumrun Vafa

We study the global forms of class $\mathcal{S}[A_{N-1}]$ 4d $\mathcal{N} = 2$ theories by deriving their defect groups (charges of line operators up to screening by local operators) from Coulomb branch data. Specifically, we employ an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-18 Elias Riedel Gårding

We construct 4d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) whose Coulomb branches have singular complex structures. This implies, in particular, that their Coulomb branch coordinate rings are not freely generated. Our construction also gives…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Philip C. Argyres , Mario Martone

We give a new construction of noncommutative surfaces via elliptic difference operators, attaching a 1-parameter noncommutative deformation to any projective rational surface with smooth anticanonical curve. The construction agrees with one…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Eric M. Rains

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

The study of Coulomb branches of 3-dimensional N=4 gauge theories via the associated Hilbert series, the so-called monopole formula, has been proven useful not only for 3-dimensional theories, but also for Higgs branches of 5 and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-28 Amihay Hanany , Marcus Sperling

We obtain the Seiberg-Witten geometry for four-dimensional N=2 gauge theory with gauge group SO(2N_c) (N_c \leq 5) with massive spinor and vector hypermultiplets by considering the gauge symmetry breaking in the N=2 $E_6$ theory with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Seiji Terashima , Sung-Kil Yang

Quiver theories arising on D3-branes at orbifold and del Pezzo singularities are studied using mirror symmetry. We show that the quivers for the orbifold theories are given by the soliton spectrum of massive 2d N=2 theory with weighted…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Bo Feng , Amihay Hanany , Yang Hui He , Amer Iqbal

A generalized Kummer surface $X=Km_{3}(A,G_{A})$ is the minimal resolution of the quotient of a $2$-dimensional complex torus by an order 3 symplectic automorphism group $G_{A}$. A Kummer structure on $X$ is an isomorphism class of pairs…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Xavier Roulleau

We determine the structure of the BPS algebra of 2-Calabi-Yau Abelian categories for which the stack of objects admits a good moduli space. We prove that this algebra is isomorphic to the positive part of the enveloping algebra of a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Ben Davison , Lucien Hennecart , Sebastian Schlegel Mejia

We consider generalisations of the elliptic Calogero--Moser systems associated to complex crystallographic groups in accordance to [1]. In our previous work [2], we proposed these systems as candidates for Seiberg--Witten integrable systems…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-17 Philip C. Argyres , Oleg Chalykh , Yongchao Lü

We compare the deformation theory and the analytic structure of the Seiberg-Witten moduli spaces of a K\"ahler surface to the corresponding components of the Hilbert scheme, and show that they are isomorphic. Next we show how to compute the…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Robert Friedman , John W. Morgan

The AdS/CFT correspondence between Sasaki-Einstein spaces and quiver gauge theories is studied from the perspective of massless BPS geodesics. The recently constructed toric Lpqr geometries are considered: we determine the dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergio Benvenuti , Martin Kruczenski

We study the classification of 2-dimensional scale-invariant rigid special Kahler (RSK) geometries, which potentially describe the Coulomb branches of N=2 supersymmetric field theories in four dimensions. We show that this classification is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Philip C. Argyres , Michael Crescimanno , Alfred D. Shapere , John R. Wittig

We make progress in understanding the geometry associated to the Generalized Toric Polygons (GTPs) encoding the Physics of 5d Superconformal Field Theories (SCFTs), by exploiting the connection between Hanany-Witten transitions and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-18 Guillermo Arias-Tamargo , Sebastián Franco , Diego Rodríguez-Gómez

Three dimensional supersymmetric field theories have large moduli spaces of circular Wilson loops preserving a fixed set of supercharges. We simplify previous constructions of such Wilson loops and amend and clarify their classification.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-16 Nadav Drukker

The Coulomb phase of a quantum field theory, when present, illuminates the analysis of its line operators and one-form symmetries. For 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ field theories the low energy physics of this phase is encoded in the special K\"ahler…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-21 Philip C. Argyres , Mario Martone , Michael Ray

We explore BPS quivers for D=5 theories, compactified on a circle and geometrically engineered over local Calabi-Yau 3-folds, for which many of known machineries leading to (refined) indices fail due to the fine-tuning of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 Zhihao Duan , Dongwook Ghim , Piljin Yi

We consider the action of the group $\mathrm{PGL}_4(K)$ on the smooth cubic surfaces of $\mathbb{P}^3_K$ ($K$ an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero). We classify, in an explicit way, all the smooth cubic surfaces with non…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Michela Brundu , Alessandro Logar , Federico Polli