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We study various conjectural dual descriptions of a stack of M2-branes in M-theory including ADHM, ABJ(M), BLG, discrete gauge theories and quiver Chern-Simons (CS) theories and propose several new dualities of the M2-brane SCFTs by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-10 Hirotaka Hayashi , Tomoki Nosaka , Tadashi Okazaki

We construct the chiral algebra associated with the $A_{1}$-type class $\mathcal{S}$ theory for genus two Riemann surface without punctures. By solving the BRST cohomology problem corresponding to a marginal gauging in four dimensions, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-02 Kazuki Kiyoshige , Takahiro Nishinaka

In a recent work, restricted Schur polynomials have been argued to form a complete orthogonal set of gauge invariant operators for the 1/4-BPS sector of free N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory with an SO(N) gauge group. In this work, we extend…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Garreth Kemp

We study the unflavored Schur indices in the $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory for the $B_n,C_n,D_n, G_2$ gauge groups. We explore two methods, namely the character expansion method and the Fermi gas method, to efficiently compute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-16 Bao-ning Du , Min-xin Huang , Xin Wang

We focus on the 1/4-BPS sector of free super Yang-Mills theory with an SO(N) gauge group. This theory has an AdS/CFT dual in the form of type IIB string theory with AdS_5 X RP^5 geometry. With the aim of studying excited giant graviton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Garreth Kemp

The Schur index in four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory with $U(N)$ gauge group has a natural two-parameter deformation. We find that a matrix integral in such a deformed Schur index can be exactly evaluated by using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-07 Yasuyuki Hatsuda

We study certain exactly marginal gaugings involving arbitrary numbers of Argyres-Douglas (AD) theories and show that the resulting Schur indices are related to those of certain Lagrangian theories of class $\mathcal{S}$ via simple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Matthew Buican , Linfeng Li , Takahiro Nishinaka

We study certain higher-spin chiral operators in N=2 superconformal field theories (SCFTs). In Lagrangian theories, or in theories related to Lagrangian theories by generalized Argyres-Seiberg-Gaiotto duality ("type A" theories in our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Matthew Buican , Takahiro Nishinaka , Constantinos Papageorgakis

We describe an infinite two-parameter subfamily of theories of class S where dialing one of the parameters interpolates between Gaiotto's T_N theory and a theory of N^2 free hypermultiplets. After using the reduced superconformal index to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-21 James McGrane , Brian Wecht

We construct an index for BPS operators supported on a ray in five dimensional superconformal field theories with exceptional global symmetries. We compute the $E_n$ representations (for $n=2,\dots,7$) of operators of low spin, thus…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Chi-Ming Chang , Ori Ganor , Jihwan Oh

We study half-BPS surface operators in N=2 supersymmetric QCD in four dimensions with gauge group SU(2) and four fundamental flavours. We compute the twisted chiral superpotential that describes the effective theory on the surface operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-09 Sourav Ballav , Renjan Rajan John

We give a new, fully mathematical, construction of the space of local operators in the holomorphic-topological twist of 4d $\mathcal N=2$ gauge theories. It is based on computations of morphism spaces in the DG category of line operators,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-03 Wenjun Niu

We discuss giant graviton expansions for the Schur index of ${\cal N}=4$ $U(N)$ SYM with the insertion of Wilson lines of the fundamental and the anti-fundamental representations. We first propose a double-sum giant graviton expansion and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-02 Yosuke Imamura

We study superconformal indices of 4d N=2 class S theories with certain irregular punctures called type $I_{k, N}$. This class of theories include generalized Argyres-Douglas theories of type $(A_{k-1}, A_{N-1})$ and more. We conjecture the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-21 Jaewon Song

We discuss some of the analytic properties of lens space indices for 4d N=2 theories of class S. The S-duality properties of these theories highly constrain the lens space indices, and imply in particular that they are naturally acted upon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-06 Shlomo S. Razamat , Masahito Yamazaki

One can derive a large class of new $\mathcal{N}=1$ SCFTs by turning on $\mathcal{N}=1$ preserving deformations for $\mathcal{N}=2$ Argyres-Dougals theories. In this work, we use $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal indices to get indices of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-27 Dan Xie , Wenbin Yan

We study configurations of two $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theories of unitary gauge groups connected by the BPS interfaces involving line operators. We find strong evidence of S-duality of the configurations as precise matching of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-11 Yasuyuki Hatsuda , Tadashi Okazaki

We consider the $\mathcal{N}=2$ quiver gauge theory arising from a $\mathbb{Z}_M$ orbifold of $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills theory. Over the years, exploiting supersymmetric localization, exact expressions for several observables have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-06 Pieter-Jan De Smet , Alessandro Pini , Paolo Vallarino

We list 4d interacting $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFT with minimal flavor central charge from the theory space constructed using 6d $(2,0)$ theory. For $ADE$ and $C_N$ flavor groups, our theory saturates the bound found using bootstrap method, but…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-12 Dan Xie

We study the superconformal index for the class of N=2 4d superconformal field theories recently introduced by Gaiotto. These theories are defined by compactifying the (2,0) 6d theory on a Riemann surface with punctures. We interpret the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-03-19 Abhijit Gadde , Elli Pomoni , Leonardo Rastelli , Shlomo S. Razamat