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New examples of N=2 supersymmetric conformal field theories are found as fixed points of SU(2) N=2 supersymmetric QCD. Relations among the scaling dimensions of their relevant chiral operators, global symmetries, and Higgs branches are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-07 P. C. Argyres , M. R. Plesser , N. Seiberg , E. Witten

We argue that two four-dimensional strongly coupled superconformal field theories, on the Higgs branch in certain large N limits, become respectively (2,0) theory and (1,1) little string theory in six dimensions. We identify the spectrum of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Andrew G. Cohen , David B. Kaplan , Andreas Karch , Lubos Motl

We study five-dimensional supersymmetric field theories with one-dimensional Coulomb branch. We extend a previous analysis which led to non-trivial fixed points with $E_n$ symmetry ($E_8$, $E_7$, $E_6$, $E_5=Spin(10)$, $E_4=SU(5)$,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 David R. Morrison , Nathan Seiberg

We propose a brane configuration for the (2+1)d, $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal theories (CFT$_3$) arising from M2-branes probing toric Calabi-Yau 4-fold cones, using a T-duality transformation of M-theory. We obtain intersections of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-07 Sangmin Lee

M5-branes probing an ADE singularity lead to 6D SCFTs with (1,0) supersymmetry. On the tensor branch, the M5-branes specify domain walls of a 7D Super Yang-Mills theory with gauge group G of ADE-type, thus providing conformal matter for a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-16 Jonathan J. Heckman

We discuss infinite families of non-supersymmetric AdS$_6$ solutions in Type IIB string theory. They are siblings of supersymmetric solutions which are associated with $(p,q)$ 5-brane webs and holographically dual to 5d SCFTs engineered by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-03 Fabio Apruzzi , G. Bruno De Luca , Gabriele Lo Monaco , Christoph F. Uhlemann

We present exact evaluations of superconformal indices for 4d N =1 and N =2 pure Super Yang-Mills theories with arbitrary simple gauge group G. Our approach applies the Macdonald identities for untwisted affine Lie algebras to the integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-12 Yongchao Lü

We consider the 4d superconformal index for ${\cal N}=2$ gauge theories on $S^1 \times L(r,1)$, where $L(r,1)$ is a Lens space. We focus on a one-parameter slice of the three-dimensional fugacity space and in that sector we show S-duality.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Luis F. Alday , Mathew Bullimore , Martin Fluder

We study the highest-weight representation of N=2 supersymmetric Schrodinger algebra which appears in non-relativistic superconformal field theories in (1+2) dimension. We define the index for the non-relativistic superconformal field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-04 Yu Nakayama

We study correlation functions in five-dimensional non-Lorentzian theories with an $SU(1,3)$ conformal symmetry. Examples of such theories have recently been obtained as $\Omega$-deformed Yang-Mills Lagrangians arising from a null reduction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-06 Neil Lambert , Arthur Lipstein , Rishi Mouland , Paul Richmond

We present a nonabelian Lagrangian that appears to have $(2,0)$ superconformal symmetry and that can be coupled to a supergravity background. But for our construction to work, we have to break this superconformal symmetry by imposing as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Andreas Gustavsson

We study the noncommutative superspace of arbitrary dimensions in a systematic way. Superfield theories on a noncommutative superspace can be formulated in two folds, through the star product formalism and in terms of the supermatrices. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Jeong-Hyuck Park

We classify possible supersymmetry-preserving relevant, marginal, and irrelevant deformations of unitary superconformal theories in $d \geq 3$ dimensions. Our method only relies on symmetries and unitarity. Hence, the results are model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Clay Cordova , Thomas T. Dumitrescu , Kenneth Intriligator

We study a non-standard decoupling limit of the D1/D5-brane system, which interpolates between the near-horizon geometry of the D1/D5 background and the near-horizon limit of the pure D5-brane geometry. The S-dual description of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Dan Israel , Costas Kounnas , Marios P Petropoulos

We construct Seiberg-Witten curves for 5d $\mathcal{N}=1$ gauge theories whose Type IIB 5-brane configuration involves an O7-plane and discuss an intriguing relation between theories with an O7$^+$-plane and those with an O7$^-$-plane and 8…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-05 Hirotaka Hayashi , Sung-Soo Kim , Kimyeong Lee , Futoshi Yagi

We explicitly construct and list all unitary superconformal multiplets, along with their index contributions, in five and six dimensions. From this data, we uncover various unifying themes in the representation theory of five- and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Matthew Buican , Joseph Hayling , Constantinos Papageorgakis

We consider the superconformal index of class S theories of type D, which arise by compactification of the (2,0) D_n theories on a punctured Riemann surface C. We also allow for the presence of twist lines on C associated to the Z_2 outer…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-04 Madalena Lemos , Wolfger Peelaers , Leonardo Rastelli

We conjecture a closed-form expression for the Schur limit of the superconformal index of two infinite series of Argyres-Douglas (AD) superconformal field theories (SCFTs): the (A_1,A_{2n-3}) and the (A_1,D_{2n}) theories. While these SCFTs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Matthew Buican , Takahiro Nishinaka

We propose an algebro-geometric interpretation of the Schur and Macdonald indices of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs). We conjecture that there exists an affine scheme $X$, which reduces to the Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-12 Monica Jinwoo Kang , Craig Lawrie , Jaewon Song

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