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We compute the equivariant elliptic genera of several classes of ALE and ALF manifolds using localization in gauged linear sigma models. In the sigma model computation the equivariant action corresponds to chemical potentials for U(1)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Jeffrey A. Harvey , Sungjay Lee , Sameer Murthy

In this work we investigate 5-dimensional theories obtained from M-theory on genus one fibered threefolds which exhibit twisted algebras in their fibers. We provide a base-independent algebraic description of the threefolds and compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-16 Lara B. Anderson , James Gray , Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann

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

Elliptic and genus one fibered Calabi-Yau spaces play a prominent role in string theory and mathematics. In this article we discuss a class of genus one fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds with 5-sections from various perspectives. In algebraic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-14 Johanna Knapp , Emanuel Scheidegger , Thorsten Schimannek

We compute the elliptic genera of two-dimensional N=(2,2) and N=(0,2) gauged linear sigma models via supersymmetric localization, for rank-one gauge groups. The elliptic genus is expressed as a sum over residues of a meromorphic function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-18 Francesco Benini , Richard Eager , Kentaro Hori , Yuji Tachikawa

A precise formula for the elliptic genus of three E-strings is presented. The related refined free energy coincides with the result calculated from topological string on local half K3 Calabi-Yau threefold up to genus twelve. The elliptic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Wenhe Cai , Min-xin Huang , Kaiwen Sun

Six dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ supergravity features BPS strings whose properties encode highly nontrivial information about the parent 6d theory. We focus on a distinguished set of theories whose string charge lattice is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-15 Guglielmo Lockhart , Luca Novelli

We study the elliptic genera of the non-critical strings of six dimensional superconformal field theories from the point of view of the strings' worldsheet theory. We formulate a general ansatz for these in terms of characters of the affine…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-18 David Jaramillo Duque , Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor

We consider type IIB string theory on $\mathrm{AdS}_5\times S^5/\mathbb{Z}_{L}$ orbifold spaces with generic $L$. Recent localisation results in the dual 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ circular quiver gauge theories provide us with strong coupling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Carlos Barredo Martínez , Torben Skrzypek

We study the spectrum of BPS particles on the Coulomb branch of five-dimensional superconformal field theories (5d SCFTs) compactified on a circle. By engineering these theories in M-theory on ${\mathbf X} \times S^1 $, for ${\mathbf X}$ an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-03 Cyril Closset , Michele Del Zotto

We study strings associated with minimal 6d SCFTs, which by definition have only one string charge and no Higgs branch. These theories are labelled by a number n with 1 <= n <= 8 or n = 12. Quiver theories have previously been proposed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Babak Haghighat , Albrecht Klemm , Guglielmo Lockhart , Cumrun Vafa

According to a conjecture, all 5d SCFTs should be obtainable by rank-preserving RG flows of 6d SCFTs compactified on a circle possibly twisted by a background for the discrete global symmetries around the circle. For a 6d SCFT admitting an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Patrick Jefferson

We consider M-theory compactification on Calabi-Yau threefolds. The recently discovered connection between the BPS states of wrapped M2 branes and the topological string amplitudes on the threefold is used both as a tool to compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Sheldon Katz , Albrecht Klemm , Cumrun Vafa

M2 branes suspended between adjacent parallel M5 branes lead to light strings, the `M-strings'. In this paper we compute the elliptic genus of M-strings, twisted by maximally allowed symmetries that preserve 2d (2,0) supersymmetry. In a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Babak Haghighat , Amer Iqbal , Can Kozcaz , Guglielmo Lockhart , Cumrun Vafa

We study the BPS spectrum of E-strings in a situation where the global E_8 symmetry is broken down to D_4 + D_4 by a certain twist. We find that the refined BPS index in this setup serves as a reduced BPS index of E-strings, which gives a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Kazuhiro Sakai

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

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 study 2d $\mathcal{N}=(0,2)$ and $\mathcal{N}=(0,4)$ theories derived from compactifying class $\mathcal{S}$ theories on $S^2$ with a topological twist. We present concise expressions for the elliptic genera of both classes of theories,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-24 Satoshi Nawata , Yiwen Pan , Jiahao Zheng

A twisting system is one of the major tools to study graded algebras, however, it is often difficult to construct a (non-algebraic) twisting system if a graded algebra is given by generators and relations. In this paper, we show that a…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Masaki Matsuno

We explore 6d (1,0) superconformal field theories with SU(3) and SU(2) gauge symmetries which cascade after Higgsing to the E-string theory on a single M5 near an $E_8$ wall. Specifically, we study the 2d $\mathcal{N}=(0,4)$ gauge theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-13 Joonho Kim , Seok Kim , Kimyeong Lee