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We summarise recent work on superconformal field theories using analytic superspace. All operators of N=4 SYM can be given as unconstrained superfields on analytic superspace. We show how to write down operators as superfields on analytic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 P. J. Heslop

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

Non-chiral operators with positive anomalous dimensions can have interesting applications to supersymmetric model building. Motivated by this, we develop a new method for obtaining the anomalous dimensions of non-chiral double-trace…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , David Shih

We study superconformal indices of 4d N=2 class S theories with certain irregular punctures called type $I_{k, N}$. This class of theories include generalized Argyres-Douglas theories of type $(A_{k-1}, A_{N-1})$ and more. We conjecture the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-21 Jaewon Song

The N = 2, 4 superconformal symmetry constraints in d = 4 for four point functions of chiral primary 1/2-BPS operators are derived. The operators are described by symmetric traceless tensors of the internal R-symmetry group. A substantial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-06 Michael Nirschl

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 find a four-dimensional N=1 gauge theory which flows to the minimal interacting N=2 superconformal field theory, the Argyres-Douglas theory, in the infrared up to the extra free chiral multiplets. The gauge theory is obtained from a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-19 Kazunobu Maruyoshi , Jaewon Song

Applying the Casimir operator to four-point functions in CFTs allows us to find the conformal blocks for any external operators. In this work, we initiate the program to find the superconformal blocks, using the super Casimir operator, for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Israel A. Ramírez

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

We study the conformal bootstrap constraints for 4D $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal field theories containing a chiral operator $\phi$ and the chiral ring relation $\phi^2=0$. Hints for a minimal interacting SCFT in this class have appeared…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-01 David Poland , Andreas Stergiou

There is a well-known map from 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) to 2d vertex operator algebras (VOAs). The 4d Schur index corresponds to the VOA vacuum character, and must be a solution with integral coefficients of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-20 Justin Kaidi , Mario Martone , Leonardo Rastelli , Mitch Weaver

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 study certain exactly marginal gaugings involving arbitrary numbers of Argyres-Douglas (AD) theories and show that the resulting Schur indices are related to those of certain Lagrangian theories of class $\mathcal{S}$ via simple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Matthew Buican , Linfeng Li , Takahiro Nishinaka

The large R-charge limit of two-point functions of chiral primary operators in rank-one N=2 superconformal field theories exhibits a universal behavior controlled by the effective field theory on their Coulomb branch. In the case of SU(2)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-24 Andrea Cipriani , Raffaele Savelli

We find a large class of two-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(0,2)$ SCFTs obtained by compactifying four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ quiver gauge theories on a Riemann surface. We study these theories using anomalies and $c$-extremization. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-07 Francesco Benini , Nikolay Bobev , P. Marcos Crichigno

We consider four-dimensional N=2 superconformal field theories based on ADE quiver diagrams. We use the procedure of hep-th/0206079 and compute the exact anomalous dimensions of operators with large U(1)_R charge to all orders in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Yaron Oz , Tadakatsu Sakai

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

This dissertation reviews various aspects of the N=4 supersymmetric Yang--Mills theory in particular in relation with the AdS/CFT correspondence. The first two chapters are introductory. The first one contains a description of the general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefano Kovacs

We study compactifications of an infinite family of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ SCFTs on a Riemann surface in the presence of arbitrary background fluxes for global symmetries. The four-dimensional parent theories have holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Christopher Couzens , Huibert het Lam , Kilian Mayer

We propose a novel procedure of assigning a pair of non-unitary topological quantum field theories (TQFTs), TFT$_\pm [\mathcal{T}_{\rm rank \;0}]$, to a (2+1)D interacting $\mathcal{N}=4$ superconformal field theory (SCFT) $\mathcal{T}_{\rm…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Dongmin Gang , Sungjoon Kim , Kimyeong Lee , Myungbo Shim , Masahito Yamazaki