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Maximally supersymmetric gauge theory in four dimensions admits local boundary conditions which preserve half of the bulk supersymmetries. The S-duality of the bulk gauge theory can be extended in a natural fashion to act on such half-BPS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-09 Davide Gaiotto

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 study the line defect half-indices of 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric Chern-Simons (CS) theories with (special)unitary, symplectic, orthogonal and exceptional gauge groups. We find that they have several beautiful infinite product…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-29 Tadashi Okazaki , Douglas J. Smith

We apply the recent proposal for mirrors of nonabelian (2,2) supersymmetric two-dimensional gauge theories to make predictions for two-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories with exceptional gauge groups G2, F4, E6, E7, and E8. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-26 Z. Chen , W. Gu , H. Parsian , E. Sharpe

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

We develop exceptional field theory for E$_{8(8)}$, defined on a (3+248)-dimensional generalized spacetime with extended coordinates in the adjoint representation of E$_{8(8)}$. The fields transform under E$_{8(8)}$ generalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-03 Olaf Hohm , Henning Samtleben

We present various confinement phases of three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ $Spin(N)$ gauge theories with vector and spinor matters. The quantum Coulomb branch of the moduli space of vacua is drastically changed when the rank of the gauge…

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

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 propose a family of IR dualities for 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ $U(N)$ SQCD with $N_f$ fundamental flavors and $P$ Abelian hypermultiplets i.e. $P$ hypermultiplets in the determinant representation of the gauge group. These theories are good in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-23 Anindya Dey

The multi-vector generalization of a rigid, partially-broken $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric theory is presented as a rigid limit of a suitable gauged $\mathcal{N}=2$ supergravity with electric, magnetic charges and antisymmetric tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-15 Laura Andrianopoli , Patrick Concha , Riccardo D'Auria , Evelyn Rodriguez , Mario Trigiante

We study the gauge/gravity duality for theories with four dimensional ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetries. We consider the large class of generalized quiver field theories constructed recently by one of us (D.G.). These field theories can also be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Davide Gaiotto , Juan Maldacena

We present non-trivial interactions of N=1 self-dual massive vector multiplet in three-dimensions, with gauged scale covariance. Our multiplets are a vector multiplet (A_\mu, \lambda) and a gauge multiplet (B_\mu, \chi), where the latter is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Hitoshi Nishino , Subhash Rajpoot

We establish a novel correspondence between 4D $\mathcal N=1$ supersymmetric gauge theories on $D^2\times T^2$ and open XYZ spin chains with generalized boundary conditions, extending beyond previous 3D Bethe/gauge duality frameworks. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-24 Xiang-Mao Ding , Ting Zhang

We explore the large-N limits of 2d CFTs, focusing mostly on WZW models and their cosets. The $SU(N)_k$ theory is parametrized in this limit by a 't Hooft-like coupling. We show a duality between strong coupling, where the theory is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-19 Elias Kiritsis , Vasilis Niarchos

We introduce a class of 3d theories consisting of strongly-coupled ${\mathcal N}=4$ systems coupled to ${\mathcal N}=3$ Chern-Simons gauge multiplets, which exhibit ${\mathcal N}=4$ enhancements when a peculiar condition on the Chern-Simons…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-12 Benjamin Assel , Yuji Tachikawa , Alessandro Tomasiello

We obtain the Seiberg-Witten geometry for four-dimensional N=2 gauge theory with gauge group SO(2N_c) (N_c \leq 5) with massive spinor and vector hypermultiplets by considering the gauge symmetry breaking in the N=2 $E_6$ theory with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Seiji Terashima , Sung-Kil Yang

We continue to investigate the relationship between the infrared physics of N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories in four dimensions and various integrable models such as Gaudin, Calogero-Moser and quantum spin chains. We prove interesting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-20 Heng-Yu Chen , Po-Shen Hsin , Peter Koroteev

We undertake a systematic study of the $4$-dimensional $SU(N)$ $2$-index chiral gauge theories and investigate their faithful global symmetries and dynamics. These are a finite set of theories with fermions in the $2$-index symmetric and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-10 Mohamed M. Anber , Samson Y. L. Chan

We construct novel $7d$ supersymmetric gauge theories which include a Chern-Simons-like term on curved spaces. In order to so, we examine the supersymmetry constraints for E7-branes in type IIA$^*$ theory, rather than making use of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Daniël Prins

In this paper, we give a new effective superpotential that makes clear Bethe/Gauge correspondence between 2d (and 3d) $\text{SO/Sp}$ gauge theories and open $\text{XXX}$ (and $\text{XXZ}$) spin chains with diagonal boundary conditions, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-13 Xiang-Mao Ding , Tinglyer Zhang