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In this paper, we investigate the twisted $A_{2n}$ sector of class-S theories. Heretofore, the Coulomb branches of such theories have been poorly understood. In this, and a companion paper, we make progress in our understanding of them. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-27 Jacques Distler , Grant Elliot

We study $4D$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories that arise as the compactification of the six-dimensional $(2,0)$ theory of type $E_6$ on a punctured Riemann surface in the presence of $\mathbb{Z}_2$ outer-automorphism twists.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-28 Oscar Chacaltana , Jacques Distler , Anderson Trimm

We study twisted traces on the quantum Higgs branches $A_{\operatorname{Higgs}}$ of $3d, \mathcal{N}=4$ gauge theories, that is, the quantum Hamiltonian reductions of Weyl algebras. In theories which are good, we define a twisted trace that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-29 Davide Gaiotto , Justin Hilburn , Jaime Redondo-Yuste , Ben Webster , Zheng Zhou

The study of Coulomb branches of 3-dimensional N=4 gauge theories via the associated Hilbert series, the so-called monopole formula, has been proven useful not only for 3-dimensional theories, but also for Higgs branches of 5 and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-28 Amihay Hanany , Marcus Sperling

The Higgs branch of 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs can be analyzed via the Hilbert series of the Higgs branch or, in special cases, by computing the Hall-Littlewood index. For any class $\mathcal{S}$ theory corresponding to a genus-zero Riemann…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-09 Monica Jinwoo Kang , Craig Lawrie , Ki-Hong Lee , Matteo Sacchi , Jaewon Song

We study 4D N=2 superconformal theories that arise from the compactification of 6D N=(2,0) theories of type A_{2N-1} on a Riemann surface C, in the presence of punctures twisted by a Z_2 outer automorphism. We describe how to do a complete…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-18 Oscar Chacaltana , Jacques Distler , Yuji Tachikawa

We consider the quantized $\mathrm{SL}_2$-character variety of a once-punctured torus. We show that this quantized algebra has three $\mathbb{Z}_2$-invariant subalgebras that are isomorphic to quantized $K$-theoretic Coulomb branches in the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Dylan G. L. Allegretti , Peng Shan

This is the second and final part of ``Topological twists of massive SQCD''. Part I is available at arXiv:2206.08943. In this second part, we evaluate the contribution of the Coulomb branch to topological path integrals for $\mathcal{N}=2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-14 Johannes Aspman , Elias Furrer , Jan Manschot

We determine new genus 2 Seiberg-Witten curves for four dimensional rank 2 absolute N=4 superYang-Mills theories using the automorphism twist approach. The conformal manifolds of these curves agree with those predicted by S-duality orbits…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-27 Philip C. Argyres , Mario Martone , Zekai Yu

We study moduli spaces of twisted quasimaps to a hypertoric variety $X$, arising as the Higgs branch of an abelian supersymmetric gauge theory in three dimensions. These parametrise general quiver representations whose building blocks are…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-21 Michael McBreen , Artan Sheshmani , Shing-Tung Yau

By twisted quantum invariants we mean polynomial invariants of knots in the three-sphere endowed with a representation of the fundamental group into the automorphism group of a Hopf algebra $H$. These are obtained by the Reshetikhin-Turaev…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Daniel López Neumann , Roland van der Veen

We introduce a notion of twisted pure spinor in order to characterize, in a unified way, all the special Riemannian holonomy groups just as a classical pure spinor characterizes the special K\"ahler holonomy. Motivated by certain curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-24 Rafael Herrera , Noemi Santana

We make a preliminary investigation into twisted $A_{2n}$ theories of class S. Contrary to a common piece of folklore, we establish that theories of this type realise a variety of models of Argyres-Douglas type while utilising only regular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-25 Christopher Beem , Wolfger Peelaers

We develop the theory of twisted L^2-cohomology and twisted spectral invariants for flat Hilbertian bundles over compact manifolds. They can be viewed as functions on the first de Rham cohomology of M and they generalize the standard…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Varghese Mathai , Mikhail Shubin

We set up an algebraic framework for the study of pseudoholomorphic discs bounding nonorientable Lagrangians, as well as equivariant extensions of such structures arising from a torus action. First, we define unital cyclic twisted…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Amitai Netser Zernik

We study the Coulomb branches of 3d N=4 `star-shaped' quiver gauge theories and their deformation quantizations, by applying algebraic techniques that have been developed in the mathematics and physics literature over the last few years.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Tudor Dimofte , Niklas Garner

In this paper, we present an explicit construction of twisted traces for quantum Coulomb branches of conical theories. We develop an operator representation of the Coulomb branch algebra and use it to derive integral formulas for the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Keke Zhang

We introduce the $\mathbb{Z}_N$-twisted trigonometric sigma models, a new class of integrable deformations of the principal chiral model. Starting from 4d Chern-Simons theory on a cylinder, the models are constructed by introducing a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-29 Rashad Hamidi , Ben Hoare

The coefficients of twisted Alexander polynomials of a knot induce regular functions of the $SL_2(\mathbb{C})$-character variety. We prove that the function of the highest degree has a finite value at an ideal point which gives a minimal…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-06-19 Takahiro Kitayama

We point out that the $\text{USp}$ symmetry associated to a full twisted puncture of a class S theory of type $A_\text{even}$ has the global anomaly associated to $\pi_4(\text{USp})=\mathbb{Z}_2$. We discuss manifestations of this fact in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Yuji Tachikawa , Yifan Wang , Gabi Zafrir
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