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A detailed study of the charge spectrum of three dimensional Abelian Topological Massive Gauge Theory (TMGT) is given. When this theory is defined on a manifold with two disconnected boundaries there are induced chiral Conformal Field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 P. Castelo Ferreira , Ian I. Kogan , Bayram Tekin

We study how charges of global symmetries that are manifest in the ultra-violet definition of a theory are realized as topological charges in its infra-red effective theory for two-dimensional theories with $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-05 Daniel S. Park

We compute the ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric partition function of a gauge theory on a four-dimensional compact toric manifold via equivariant localization. The result is given by a piecewise constant function of the K\"ahler form with jumps…

Five- and four-dimensional superconformal field theories with eight supercharges arise from canonical threefold singularities in M-theory and Type IIB string theory, respectively. We study their Coulomb and Higgs branches using crepant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-02 Cyril Closset , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Yi-Nan Wang

We discover a modular property of supersymmetric partition functions of supersymmetric theories with R-symmetry in four dimensions. This modular property is, in a sense, the generalization of the modular invariance of the supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Abhijit Gadde

A well-established organisational principle for Argyres--Douglas-type $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories in four dimensions is to characterise such theories by the data defining a(n irregular) Hitchin system on $\mathbb{CP}^1$.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-06 Christopher Beem , Mario Martone , Matteo Sacchi , Palash Singh , Jake Stedman

We propose the Symmetry TFT for theories with a $U(1)$ symmetry in arbitrary dimension. The Symmetry TFT describes the structure of the symmetry, its anomalies, and the possible topological manipulations. It is constructed as a BF theory of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-03 Andrea Antinucci , Francesco Benini

We study the compactification of 4D $\mathcal{N}=3$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) on $S^1$, focusing on the relation between the 4D superconformal index and 3D partition function on the squashed sphere $S^3_b$. Since the center…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-19 Tomoki Nakanishi , Takahiro Nishinaka

We study holographic solutions describing RG flows across dimensions from five-dimensional $N=2$ SCFT to SCFTs in three and two dimensions using matter-coupled $F(4)$ gauged supergravity with $ISO(3)\times U(1)$ gauge group. By performing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-18 Parinya Karndumri

We derive the Symmetry Topological Field Theories (SymTFTs) for 3d supersymmetric quantum field theories (QFTs) constructed in M-theory either via geometric engineering or holography. These 4d SymTFTs encode the symmetry structures of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Marieke van Beest , Dewi S. W. Gould , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Yi-Nan Wang

We study Euclidean 3D N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories on squashed three-spheres preserving isometries SU(2) x U(1) or U(1) x U(1). We show that, when a suitable background U(1) gauge field is turned on, these squashed spheres support…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Naofumi Hama , Kazuo Hosomichi , Sungjay Lee

A large family of 4d N=2 SCFT's was introduced in arXiv:1210.2886. Its elements $D_p(G)$ are labelled by a positive integer p\in N and a simply-laced Lie group G; their flavor symmetry is at least G. In the present paper we study their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Sergio Cecotti , Michele Del Zotto , Simone Giacomelli

It is known that a large class of characters of 2d conformal field theories (CFTs) can be written in the form of a Nahm sum. In \cite{Zagier:2007knq}, D. Zagier identified a list of Nahm sum expressions that are modular functions under a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-19 Dongmin Gang , Heeyeon Kim , Byoungyoon Park , Spencer Stubbs

We investigate all possible nilpotent symmetries for a particle on torus. We explicitly construct four independent nilpotent BRST symmetries for such systems and derive the algebra between the generators of such symmetries. We show that…

General Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Vipul Kumar Pandey , Bhabani Prasad Mandal

We study macroscopically two dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ supersymmetric gauge theories constructed by compactifying the quiver gauge theories with eight supercharges on a product $\mathbb{T}^{d} \times \mathbb{R}^{2}_{\epsilon}$ of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-25 Nikita Nekrasov , Vasily Pestun , Samson Shatashvili

In the three-dimensional sl(N) Chern-Simons higher-spin theory, we prove that the conical surplus and the black hole solution are related by the S-transformation of the modulus of the boundary torus. Then applying the modular group on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-25 Wei Li , Feng-Li Lin , Chih-Wei Wang

We study the $S^1\times\Sigma_{\mathfrak g}$ topologically twisted index and the squashed sphere partition function of various 3d $\mathcal N\geq2$ holographic superconformal field theories arising from M2-branes. Employing numerical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-06 Nikolay Bobev , Junho Hong , Valentin Reys

We propose a generalization of S-folds to 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories. This construction is motivated by the classification of rank one 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ super-conformal field theories (SCFTs), which we reproduce from D3-branes probing a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-07 Fabio Apruzzi , Simone Giacomelli , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

We study half-BPS surface operators in supersymmetric gauge theories in four and five dimensions following two different approaches. In the first approach we analyze the chiral ring equations for certain quiver theories in two and three…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 S. K. Ashok , M. Billo , E. Dell'Aquila , M. Frau , V. Gupta , R. R. John , A. Lerda

We generalize recent construction of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ SCFT from wrapping six-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(2,0)$ theory on a Riemann surface to the case of $D$-type with outer-automorphism twists. This construction allows us to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Prarit Agarwal , Jaewon Song