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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

Two new diagrammatic techniques on $3d\;\mathcal N=4$ quiver gauge theories, termed chain and cyclic quiver polymerisation are introduced. These gauge a diagonal $\mathrm{SU}/\mathrm{U}(k)$ subgroup of the Coulomb branch global symmetry of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-13 Amihay Hanany , Rudolph Kalveks , Guhesh Kumaran

We present a formulation of the three- and four-point amplitudes on the Coulomb branch of N=4 SYM as integrals over the symplectic Grassmannian. We demonstrate that their kinematic spaces are equivalent to symplectic Grassmannians…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-07 Veronica Calvo Cortes , Yassine El Maazouz , Subramanya Hegde , Amit Suthar

Using geometric engineering in the context of type II strings, we obtain exact solutions for the moduli space of the Coulomb branch of all N=2 gauge theories in four dimensions involving products of SU gauge groups with arbitrary number of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Katz , P. Mayr , C. Vafa

We compute the Coulomb branch of a multiloop quiver gauge theory for the quiver with a single vertex, $r$ loops, one-dimensional framing, and $\dim V=2$. We identify it with a Slodowy slice in the nilpotent cone of the symplectic Lie…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-25 Michael Finkelberg , Evgeny Goncharov

We conjecture that every three dimensional canonical singularity defines a five dimensional N=1 SCFT. Flavor symmetry can be found from singularity structure: non-abelian flavor symmetry is read from the singularity type over one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Dan Xie , Shing-Tung Yau

In this paper we discuss various $N=3$ SCFTs in 4 dimensions and in particular those which can be obtained as a discrete gauging of an $N=4$ SYM theories with non-simply laced groups. The main goal of the project was to compute the Coulomb…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Mikhail Evtikhiev

We study transverse equivariant Hilbert schemes of affine hypertoric varieties equipped with a symplectic action of a Weyl group. In particular, we show that the Coulomb branches of Braverman, Finkelberg, and Nakajima can be obtained either…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Roger Bielawski , Lorenzo Foscolo

We find a parametrically light dilaton in special confining theories in three dimensions. Their duals form what we call a scion of solutions to the supergravity associated with the large-N limit of the Coulomb branch of the N=4…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-11 Daniel Elander , Maurizio Piai , John Roughley

We discuss several aspects of three dimensional N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories coupled to chiral multiplets. The generation of Chern-Simons couplings at low-energies results in novel behaviour including compact Coulomb branches,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 David Tong

We revisit the study of the maximally singular point in the Coulomb branch of 4d N=2 SU(N) gauge theory with N_f=2n flavors for N_f<2N. When n >= 2, we find that the low-energy physics is described by two non-trivial superconformal field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-27 Davide Gaiotto , Nathan Seiberg , Yuji Tachikawa

We study the low energy effective dynamics of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric gauge theories of class $\mathcal{S}_k$ on the generalized Coulomb branch. The low energy effective gauge couplings are naturally encoded in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-08 Thomas Bourton , Elli Pomoni , Xinyu Zhang

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

Three dimensional N=2 gauge theories with arbitrary gauge group and fundamental flavors are engineered from degenerations of Calabi-Yau four-folds. We show how Coulomb and Higgs branches emerge in the geometric picture. The analysis of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Duiliu-Emanuel Diaconescu , Sergei Gukov

We present a systematic study of N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories which are in the Coulomb phase. We show how to find all such theories based on a simple gauge group and no tree-level superpotential. We find the low-energy solution for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 Csaba Csaki , Witold Skiba

Effective superpotentials for the phase with a confined photon are obtained in $N=1$ supersymmetric gauge theories. We use the results to derive the hyperelliptic curves which describe the Coulomb phase of $N=2$ theories with classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Seiji Terashima , Sung-Kil Yang

We study Coulomb branch moduli spaces of a class of three dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ gauge theories whose quiver satisfies the balance condition. The Coulomb branch is described by dressed monopole operators which can be counted using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-17 Gong Cheng , Amihay Hanany , Yabo Li , Yidi Zhao

In this paper we propose a special class of 3-algebras, called double-symplectic 3-algebras. We further show that a consistent contraction of the double-symplectic 3-algebra gives a new 3-algebra, called an N=4 three-algebra, which is then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-02-14 Fa-Min Chen , Yong-Shi Wu

We formulate a conjectural relation between the category of line defects in topologically twisted 3d ${\cal N} = 4$ supersymmetric quantum field theories and categories of modules for Vertex Operator Algebras of boundary local operators for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-12 Kevin Costello , Thomas Creutzig , Davide Gaiotto

We define the slant sum of quiver gauge theories, a gluing on the underlying quivers that identifies a gauge vertex with a framing vertex. Under some mild assumptions, we relate torus fixed points on the corresponding Higgs branches, which…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Hunter Dinkins , Vasily Krylov , Reese Lance