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We study (0,2) two-dimensional theories in type IIB configurations with D5 branes wrapping blow-up ${\bf{P}}^1$ cycles of deformed resolutions for $A_n$ singularities or in T-dual IIA configurations with suspended D4 branes. We consider…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-09 Yizhuo Gao , Radu Tatar

This is an introduction to a provisional mathematical definition of Coulomb branches of $3$-dimensional $\mathcal N=4$ supersymmetric gauge theories, studied in arXiv:1503.03676, arXiv:1601.03586

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Hiraku Nakajima

We start with the SCFT/VOA correspondence formulated in the Omega-background approach, and connect it to the boundary VOA in 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ theories and chiral algebras of 2d $\mathcal{N}=(0,2)$ theories. This is done using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-22 Mykola Dedushenko

We describe the topological $A$ and $B$ twists of 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ theories of hypermultiplets gauged by $\mathcal{N}=4$ vector multiplets as certain deformations of the holomorphic-topological ($HT$) twist of those theories, utilizing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-21 Niklas Garner

We investigate 2d $\mathcal{N}=(0,4)$ supersymmetric theories obtained from a topologically-twisted reduction of 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ class $\mathcal{S}$ theories on a Riemann surface. This study addresses subtle aspects of central charges,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-25 Wei Cui , Junkang Huang , Zi-Xiao Huang , Satoshi Nawata , Shutong Zhuang

The Coulomb branch geometry of a 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFT is encoded in the data of a complex integrable system. In class-S, this is the Hitchin System (of ADE type) on the punctured curves $C$ on which we compactified from 6d to 4d. As we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-03 Aswin Balasubramanian , Jacques Distler , Ron Donagi , Carlos Perez-Pardavila

We review new aspects of integrable systems discovered recently in N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories and their topologically twisted versions. The main topics are (i) an explicit construction of Whitham deformations of the Seiberg-Witten…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Kanehisa Takasaki

We construct a new class of three-dimensional topological quantum field theories (3d TQFTs) by considering generalized Argyres-Douglas theories on $S^1 \times M_3$ with a non-trivial holonomy of a discrete global symmetry along the $S^1$.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-14 Mykola Dedushenko , Sergei Gukov , Hiraku Nakajima , Du Pei , Ke Ye

We take first steps toward a theory of ``conformal twists'' for superconformal field theories in dimension 3 to 6, extending the well-known analysis of twists for supersymmetric theories. A conformal twist is a square-zero odd element in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Chris Elliott , Owen Gwilliam , Matteo Lotito

We construct type II A brane configuration of N=(4,4) supersymmetric two dimensional gauge theory with gauge group U(1) and N_f hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation. By lifting to M-theory (strong coupling), we can see the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Alishahiha

A number of N=2 gauge theories can be realized by brane configurations in Type IIA string theory. One way of solving them involves lifting the brane configuration to M-theory. In this paper we present an alternative way of analyzing a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Anton Kapustin

We study twisted N=2 superconformal gauge theory on a product of two Riemann surfaces Sigma and C. The twisted theory is topological along C and holomorphic along Sigma and does not depend on the gauge coupling or theta-angle. Upon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Anton Kapustin

We recapture Douglas' framework for twisted parametrized stable homotopy theory in the language of $\infty$- categories. A twisted spectrum is essentially a section of a bundle of presentable stable $\infty$-categories whose fiber is the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Alice Hedenlund , Tasos Moulinos

We provide a formula for the partition function of five-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ gauge theories on $\mathcal{M}_4 \times S^1$, topologically twisted along $\mathcal{M}_4$ in the presence of general background magnetic fluxes, where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-28 Seyed Morteza Hosseini , Itamar Yaakov , Alberto Zaffaroni

We provide a general formula for the partition function of three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theories placed on $S^2 \times S^1$ with a topological twist along $S^2$, which can be interpreted as an index for chiral states of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-29 Francesco Benini , Alberto Zaffaroni

We propose that generalized symmetries in some string-constructed QFTs are given by K-theory. We thus have \textit{even-form} and \textit{odd-form} symmetries determined by $K_N(\partial X)$, the twisted K-theory as D-brane charges on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-20 Hao Y. Zhang

In this letter a new class of twisted strings is presented, with an asymmetry between the holomorphic and antiholomorphic sectors parametrized by an integer $N$. Their physical content is given by the massless resonances of the closed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 Renann Lipinski Jusinskas

Class-S theories are four-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric field theories constructed by the reduction of a (2,0) six-dimensional theory on a punctured Riemann surface C (called the UV curve). A basic degeneration limit of the surface C is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-07 Arel Genish , Vladimir Narovlansky

It has recently been suggested that, in a large N limit, a particular four dimensional gauge theory is indistinguishable from the six dimensional CFT with (0,2) supersymmetry compactified on a torus. We give further evidence for this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 Csaba Csaki , Joshua Erlich , John Terning

Tree-level scattering amplitudes of particles have a geometrical description in terms of intersection numbers of pairs of twisted differential forms on the moduli space of Riemann spheres with punctures. We customize a catalog of twisted…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-26 Pouria Mazloumi , Stephan Stieberger