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To date, the best effort made to simply determine the Coulomb branch global symmetry of a theory from a $3d$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ quiver is by applying an algorithm based on its balanced gauge nodes. This often gives the full global symmetry,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Kirsty Gledhill , Amihay Hanany

We investigate the confining phase vacua of supersymmetric $Sp(2\NC)$ gauge theories that contain matter in both fundamental and antisymmetric representations. The moduli spaces of such models with $\NF=3$ quark flavors and $\NA=1$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Peter Cho , Per Kraus

We describe an approach to classifying four-dimensional conformal field theories with N=2 supersymmetry and a Coulomb branch of vacua with the topology of the complex plane. We also discuss the Higgs/mixed branches and conformal/flavor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-03 Yongchao Lü

In this paper, we show that the Poisson algebras of cohomological and $K$-theoretic Coulomb branches of 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ necklace quiver gauge theories provide Poisson structures and Hamiltonians that reproduce the equations of motion of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-10 Gleb Arutyunov , Lukas Hardi

This is the second and final part of ``Topological twists of massive SQCD''. Part I is available at arXiv:2206.08943. In this second part, we evaluate the contribution of the Coulomb branch to topological path integrals for $\mathcal{N}=2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-14 Johannes Aspman , Elias Furrer , Jan Manschot

A distinctive duality present in 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ theories is the 3d mirror symmetry. Under this duality, the Coulomb (Higgs) branch of one theory corresponds to the Higgs (Coulomb) branch of its mirror dual. This paper is divided into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-25 Zhenghao Zhong

We obtain N=1 SU(N)^k gauge theories with bifundamental matter and a quartic superpotential as the low energy theory on D3-branes at singular points. These theories generalize that on D3-branes at a conifold point, studied recently by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Lopez

In this note we make several observations concerning symplectic cobordisms. Among other things we show that every contact 3-manifold has infinitely many concave symplectic fillings and that all overtwisted contact 3-manifolds are…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John B. Etnyre , Ko Honda

We study two dimensional $N=(4,4)$ supersymmetric gauge theories with various gauge groups and various hypermultiplets in the fundamental as well as bi-fundamental and adjoint representations. They have " mirror theories " which become…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Alishahiha

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 present an algorithm to extract the Coulomb branch Hasse diagram of orthosymplectic 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ quiver gauge theories. The algorithm systematically predicts all descendant theories arising from Coulomb branch Higgsing, thereby…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-20 Craig Lawrie , Lorenzo Mansi , Marcus Sperling , Zhenghao Zhong

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

We define a class of finite-dimensional Jacobian algebras, which are called (simple) polygon-tree algebras, as a generalization of cluster-tilted algebras of type $\D$. They are $2$-CY-tilted algebras. Using a suitable process of mutations…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-01 Ming Lu

Special Kahler manifolds are defined by coupling of vector multiplets to $N=2$ supergravity. The coupling in rigid supersymmetry exhibits similar features. These models contain $n$ vectors in rigid supersymmetry and $n+1$ in supergravity,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 B. de Wit , A. Van Proeyen

We define gauge theories whose gauge group includes charge conjugation as well as standard $\mathrm{SU}(N)$ transformations. When combined, these transformations form a novel type of group with a semidirect product structure. For $N$ even,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-24 Guillermo Arias-Tamargo , Antoine Bourget , Alessandro Pini , Diego Rodriguez-Gomez

In three-dimensional gauge theories, monopole operators create and destroy vortices. We explore this idea in the context of 3d N=4 gauge theories in the presence of an Omega-background. In this case, monopole operators generate a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-01 Mathew Bullimore , Tudor Dimofte , Davide Gaiotto , Justin Hilburn , Hee-Cheol Kim

We determine the exact vacuum structure of a marginal deformation of N=4 SUSY Yang-Mills with gauge group U(N). The Coulomb branch of the theory consists of several sub-branches which are governed by complex curves of the form Sigma_{n_{1}}…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Nick Dorey , Timothy J. Hollowood

We determine the exact global structure of the moduli space of $N{=}2$ supersymmetric $SO(n)$ and $\USp(2n)$ gauge theories with matter hypermultiplets in the fundamental representations, using the non-renormalization theorem for the Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-10-11 Philip C. Argyres , M. Ronen Plesser , Alfred D. Shapere

We propose an electric-magnetic duality and conjecture an exact conformal window for a class of non-supersymmetric U(N_c) gauge theories with fermions in the (anti)symmetric representation of the gauge group and N_f additional scalar and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Adi Armoni , Dan Israel , Gregory Moraitis , Vasilis Niarchos

We study N=(2,2) supersymmetric abelian gauge theories in two dimensions. The exact BPS spectrum of these models is shown to coincide with the spectrum of massive hypermultiplets of certain N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories in four…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 N. Dorey , T. J. Hollowood , D. Tong