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We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to study flows of N=4 SYM to non-conformal theories. The dual geometries can be seen as sourced by a Wigner's semicircle distribution of D3 branes. We consider two cases, the first case corresponds to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-27 Carlos Hoyos-Badajoz

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 study the four-dimensional N=2 superconformal field theories that describe D3-branes probing the recently constructed N=2 S-folds in F-theory. We introduce a novel, infinite class of superconformal field theories related to S-fold…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Simone Giacomelli , Carlo Meneghelli , Wolfger Peelaers

We derive explicit formulae to compute the $a$ and $c$ central charges of four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) directly from Coulomb branch related quantities. The formulae apply at arbitrary rank. We also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Mario Martone

We show that a proposed duality [arXiv:0711.0054] between infinitely coupled gauge theories and superconformal field theories (SCFTs) with weakly gauged flavor groups predicts the existence of new rank 1 SCFTs. These superconformal fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-15 Philip C. Argyres , John R. Wittig

We provide evidence for the existence of a new strongly-coupled four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theory arising as a non-trivial IR fixed point on the Coulomb branch of the mass-deformed superconformal Lagrangian theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-04 Justin Kaidi , Mario Martone

We carry out a detailed exploration of the deformations of rank-two five-dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs) $\mathcal{T}_{\mathbf{X}}$, which are geometrically engineered by M-theory on the space transverse to isolated toric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-07 Vivek Saxena

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. SCFTs we have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-05 Tohru Eguchi , Kentaro Hori , Katsushi Ito , Sung-Kil Yang

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 classify orbifold geometries which can be interpreted as moduli spaces of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}\geq 3$ superconformal field theories up to rank 2 (complex dimension 6). The large majority of the geometries we find correspond to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-09 Philip C. Argyres , Antoine Bourget , Mario Martone

We study (4,4) supersymmetric field theories in two dimensions with a one dimensional Coulomb branch. These theories have applications in string theory. Our analysis explains the known relation between $A-D-E$ groups and modular invariants…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Duiliu-Emanuel Diaconescu , Nathan Seiberg

We consider N = 2 superconformal field theory with following properties: a) Coulomb branch operators have fractional scaling dimensions, b) there are exact marginal deformations . The weakly coupled gauge theory descriptions are found by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-12 Dan Xie , Shing-Tung Yau

We use the manifestly N=2 supersymmetric, off-shell, harmonic (or twistor) superspace approach to solve the constraints implied by four-dimensional N=2 superconformal symmetry on the N=2 non-linear sigma-model target space, known as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Sergei V. Ketov

Six-dimensional superconformal field theories (6D SCFTs) occupy a central place in the study of quantum field theories encountered in high energy theory. This article reviews the top down construction and study of this rich class of quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-09 Jonathan J. Heckman , Tom Rudelius

New examples of N=2 supersymmetric conformal field theories are found as fixed points of SU(2) N=2 supersymmetric QCD. Relations among the scaling dimensions of their relevant chiral operators, global symmetries, and Higgs branches are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-07 P. C. Argyres , M. R. Plesser , N. Seiberg , E. Witten

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

A solution to the infinite coupling problem for N=2 conformal supersymmetric gauge theories in four dimensions is presented. The infinitely-coupled theories are argued to be interacting superconformal field theories (SCFTs) with weakly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-15 Philip C. Argyres , Nathan Seiberg

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

We generalize S-duality to N=2 superconformal field theories (SCFTs) with Coulomb branch operators of non-integer scaling dimension. As simple examples, we find minimal generalizations of the S-dualities discovered in SU(2) gauge theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Matthew Buican , Simone Giacomelli , Takahiro Nishinaka , Constantinos Papageorgakis

S-dualities in scale invariant N=2 supersymmetric field theories with product gauge groups are derived by embedding those theories in asymptotically free theories with higher rank gauge groups. S-duality transformations on the couplings of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Philip C. Argyres , Alex Buchel