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A characterization of rational superconformal field theories (SCFTs) on 1+1 dimensions with Ricci-flat Kahler targets was proposed by S. Gukov and C. Vafa in terms of the Hodge structure of the target space. The article [arXiv:2205.10299]…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 Masaki Okada , Taizan Watari

The study of rational conformal field theories in the moduli space is of particular interest since these theories correspond to points in moduli space where the algebraic and arithmetic structure are usually richer, while also being points…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-13 Abhiram Kidambi , Masaki Okada , Taizan Watari

We analyse the moduli spaces of superconformal field theories (SCFTs). For N=2 we find an enhanced moduli space which in geometrical terms corresponds to tori with two independent complex structures. To explain the precise relation with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian van Enckevort

6d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) are the SCFTs in the highest possible dimension. They can be geometrically engineered in F-theory by compactifying on non-compact elliptic Calabi-Yau manifolds. In this paper we focus on the class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-09 Babak Haghighat , Wenbin Yan , Shing-Tung Yau

We study the geometric interpretation of two dimensional rational conformal field theories, corresponding to sigma models on Calabi-Yau manifolds. We perform a detailed study of RCFT's corresponding to T^2 target and identify the Cardy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergei Gukov , Cumrun Vafa

In this paper we begin mapping out the space of rank-2 $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in four dimensions. This represents an ideal set of theories which can be potentially classified using purely quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-10 Mario Martone

In a recent paper, we proposed closed-form expressions for the superconformal indices of the (A_1, A_{2n-3}) and (A_1, D_{2n}) Argyres-Douglas (AD) superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in the Schur limit. Following up on our results, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-06 Matthew Buican , Takahiro Nishinaka

Superconformal field theories (SCFT) are known to possess solvable yet nontrivial sectors in their full operator algebras. Two prime examples are the chiral algebra sector on a two dimensional plane in four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-24 Mykola Dedushenko , Yifan Wang

We propose a mirror symmetry for 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) compactified on a circle with finite size. The mirror symmetry involves vertex operator algebra (VOA) describing the Schur sector (containing Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 Peng Shan , Dan Xie , Wenbin Yan

Study of the matrix-level affine algebra $U_{m,K}$ is motivated by conformal field theory and the fractional quantum Hall effect. Gannon completed the classification of $U_{m,K}$ modular-invariant partition functions. Here we connect the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-29 Ali Nassar , Mark A. Walton

We show that the non-gravitational sectors of certain 6d and 5d supergravity theories can be decomposed into superconformal field theories (SCFTs) which are coupled together by pairwise identifying and gauging mutual global symmetries. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-02 Hirotaka Hayashi , Patrick Jefferson , Hee-Cheol Kim , Kantaro Ohmori , Cumrun Vafa

Under certain assumptions, we show that unitary rational $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ conformal field theories together with a certain generating set of Cardy boundary states in the associated boundary conformal field theories give rise to rational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-30 Hans Jockers , Pyry Kuusela , Maik Sarve

Turning on N=2 supersymmetry-preserving relevant operators in a 4-dimensional N=2 superconformal field theory (SCFT) corresponds to a complex deformation compatible with the rigid special Kahler geometry encoded in the low energy effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-07-29 Philip C. Argyres , John Wittig

A vertex algebra is an algebraic counterpart of a two-dimensional conformal field theory. We give a new definition of a vertex algebra which includes chiral algebras as a special case, but allows for fields which are neither meromorphic nor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-24 Anton Kapustin , Dmitri Orlov

We examine the physical significance of torsion co-cycles in the cohomology of a projective Calabi-Yau three-fold for the (2,2) superconformal field theory (SCFT) associated to the non-linear sigma model with such a manifold as a target…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-17 Peng Cheng , Ilarion V. Melnikov , Ruben Minasian

This is the first of a series of papers in which we systematically use singularity theory to study four dimensional N=2 superconformal field theories. Our main focus in this paper is to identify what kind of singularity is needed to define…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-07 Dan Xie , Shing-Tung Yau

Exploiting the symmetry topological field theory/topological order correspondence (SymTFT/TO), together with the higher-categorical structure of 6D N =(2,0) SCFTs, we prove that the total quantum dimension of the relative gaugeable algebra…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-29 Veronica Pasquarella

In this note we begin a systematic study of compact conformal manifolds of SCFTs in four dimensions (our notion of compactness is with respect to the topology induced by the Zamolodchikov metric). Supersymmetry guarantees that such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Matthew Buican , Takahiro Nishinaka

By leveraging the physics of the Higgs branch, we argue that the conformal central charges $a$ and $c$ of an arbitrary 4d $N=2$ superconformal field theory (SCFT) are rational numbers. Our proof of the rationality of $c$ is conditioned on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-15 Leonardo Rastelli , Brandon C. Rayhaun

We study a class of non-geometric string vacua realized as completely soluble superconformal field theory (SCFT). These models are defined as `interpolating orbifolds' of $K3 \times S^1$ by the mirror transformation acting on the $K3$ fiber…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Shinsuke Kawai , Yuji Sugawara
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