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We present a new family of IR dualities in three space-time dimensions with eight supercharges. In contrast to 3d mirror symmetry, these dualities map Coulomb branches to Coulomb branches and Higgs branches to Higgs branches in the deep IR.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-22 Anindya Dey

Some gauge theories with Coulomb branches exhibit singularities in perturbation theory, which are usually resolved by nonperturbative physics. In string theory this corresponds to the resolution of timelike singularities near the core of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-28 Fabio Saracco , Alessandro Tomasiello , Gonzalo Torroba

The Higgs branch of minimally supersymmetric five dimensional SQCD theories increases in a significant way at the UV fixed point when the inverse gauge coupling is tuned to zero. It has been a long standing problem to figure out how, and to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Giulia Ferlito , Amihay Hanany , Noppadol Mekareeya , Gabi Zafrir

We propose a construction of the quantum-corrected Coulomb branch of a general 3d gauge theory with $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetry, in terms of local coordinates associated with an abelianized theory. In a fixed complex structure, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-24 Mathew Bullimore , Tudor Dimofte , Davide Gaiotto

These are (somewhat informal) lectures notes for the CIME summer school "Geometric Representation Theory and Gauge Theory" in June 2018. In these notes we review the results and constructions of a series of our joint papers with H.Nakajima…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-05 Alexander Braverman , Michael Finkelberg

We compute the spectrum of scaling dimensions of Coulomb branch operators in 4d rank-2 $\mathcal{N}{=}2$ superconformal field theories. Only a finite rational set of scaling dimensions is allowed. It is determined by using information about…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-13 Philip C. Argyres , Cody Long , Mario Martone

We generalize the mathematical definition of Coulomb branches of $3$-dimensional $\mathcal N=4$ SUSY quiver gauge theories in arXiv:1503.03676, arXiv:1601.03686, arXiv:1604.03625 to the cases with symmetrizers. We obtain generalized affine…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Hiraku Nakajima , Alex Weekes

We propose a conjectural construction of various slices for double affine Grassmannians as Coulomb branches of 3-dimensional N=4 supersymmetric affine quiver gauge theories. It generalizes the known construction for the usual affine…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Michael Finkelberg

We investigate self-dualities in three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories. The electric and magnetic theories share the same gauge group. The examples include $SU(2N)$, $SO(7)$ and $SO(8)$ with various matter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Keita Nii

The constraining mathematical structure of the Coulomb branch of four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric theories is discussed. The presentation follows a somewhat different route from other excellent reviews on the subject and it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-26 Mario Martone

We construct type II A brane configuration of N=(4,4) supersymmetric two dimensional gauge theory with gauge group U(1) and N_f hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation. By lifting to M-theory (strong coupling), we can see the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Alishahiha

The Coulomb branch of $N=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories in four dimensions is described in general by an integrable Hamiltonian system in the holomorphic sense. A natural construction of such systems comes from two-dimensional gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-07 Ron Donagi , Edward Witten

Motivated by M-theory compactification on elliptic Calabi-Yau threefolds, we present a correspondence between networks of small resolutions for singular elliptic fibrations and Coulomb branches of five-dimensional N=1 gauge theories. While…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-10 Mboyo Esole , Shu-Heng Shao , Shing-Tung Yau

We study variants of Hikita conjecture for Nakajima quiver varieties and corresponding Coulomb branches. First, we derive the equivariant version of the conjecture from the non-equivariant one for a set of gauge theories. Second, we suggest…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Ilya Dumanski , Vasily Krylov

We study two types of discrete operations on Coulomb branches of $3d$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ quiver gauge theories using both abelianisation and the monopole formula. We generalise previous work on discrete quotients of Coulomb branches and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-19 Antoine Bourget , Amihay Hanany , Dominik Miketa

Symplectic resolutions are an exciting new frontier of research in representation theory. One of the most fascinating aspects of this study is symplectic duality: the observation that these resolutions come in pairs with matching…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-28 Joel Kamnitzer

We use brane configurations and SL(2,Z) symmetry of the type IIB string to construct mirror N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories in three dimensions. The mirror map exchanges Higgs and Coulomb branches, Fayet-Iliopoulos and mass parameters and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Jan de Boer , Kentaro Hori , Yaron Oz , Zheng Yin

For $\Gamma$ a quiver without 1-cycles, we show that the Braverman--Finkelberg--Najakima quantized $K$-theoretic Coulomb branch algebra $\mathscr{A}_\Gamma$ of the corresponding quiver gauge theory is isomorphic to the quantized universally…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Gus Schrader , Alexander Shapiro

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

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