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We study 3d theories containing $\mathcal{N}=3$ Chern-Simons vector multiplets coupled to the $\mathrm{SU}(N)^3$ flavour symmetry of 3d $T_N$ theories with Chern-Simons level $k_1$, $k_2$ and $k_3$. It was formerly pointed out that these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-07 Riccardo Comi , William Harding , Noppadol Mekareeya

Various aspects of orbifolds and cosets of the small $\mathcal{N}=4$ superconformal algebra are studied. First, we determine minimal strong generators for generic and specific levels. As a corollary, we obtain the vertex algebra of global…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-21 Thomas Creutzig , Andrew R. Linshaw , Wolfgang Riedler

We propose a four-dimensional supersymmetric theory that deconstructs, in a particular limit, the six-dimensional $(2,0)$ theory of type $D_k$. This 4d theory is defined by a necklace quiver with alternating gauge nodes $\mathrm{O}(2k)$ and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Antoine Bourget , Alessandro Pini , Diego Rodriguez-Gomez

We study N=2 supersymmetric four dimensional gauge theories, in a certain N=2 supergravity background, called Omega-background. The partition function of the theory in the Omega-background can be calculated explicitly. We investigate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikita Nekrasov , Andrei Okounkov

We classify four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric gauge theories with a simple gauge group admitting a large $N$ limit that flow to non-trivial superconformal fixed points in the infrared. We focus on the cases where the large $N$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-23 Minseok Cho , Ki-Hong Lee , Jaewon Song

Starting with a gentle approach to the AGT correspondence from its 6d origin, these notes provide a wide (albeit shallow) survey of the literature on numerous extensions of the correspondence up to early 2020. This is an extended writeup of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-09 Bruno Le Floch

The high-temperature limit of the superconformal index, especially on higher sheets, often captures useful universal information about a theory. In 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories with fractional r-charges, there exists a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-21 Arash Arabi Ardehali , Mykola Dedushenko , Dongmin Gang , Mikhail Litvinov

We study the Higgs branches of the superconformal points of four-dimensional N=2 super Yang-Mills (SYM) which appear due to the occurrence of mutually local monopoles having appropriate charges. We show, for example, that the maximal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Philip C. Argyres , Kazunobu Maruyoshi , Yuji Tachikawa

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

The 6d (2,0) theory of $N$ M5 branes compactified on the product geometry $T^2\times S$, where $S$ is a K\"ahler 4-manifold, can be studied in two different limits. In one limit, the size of $T^2$ is taken to zero and together with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-01 Jin Chen , Wei Cui , Babak Haghighat , Youran Sun

We consider the correlation functions of Coulomb branch operators in four-dimensional N=2 Superconformal Field Theories (SCFTs) involving exactly one anti-chiral operator. These extremal correlators are the "minimal" non-holomorphic local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-26 Efrat Gerchkovitz , Jaume Gomis , Nafiz Ishtiaque , Avner Karasik , Zohar Komargodski , Silviu S. Pufu

In this paper we consider the problem of classification of nilpotent orbits for the pseudo-quaternionic coset manifolds U/H* obtained in the time-like dimensional reduction of N = 2 supergravity models based on homogeneous symmetric special…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-01 Pietro Fré , Alexander S. Sorin , Mario Trigiante

We study compactifications on Riemann surfaces with punctures of N=(1,0) 6d SCFTs with a one dimensional tensor branch and no continuous global symmetries. The effective description of such models on the tensor branch is in terms of pure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-19 Shlomo S. Razamat , Gabi Zafrir

We compute exactly the partition function of two dimensional N=(2,2) gauge theories on S^2 and show that it admits two dual descriptions: either as an integral over the Coulomb branch or as a sum over vortex and anti-vortex excitations on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-04 Nima Doroud , Jaume Gomis , Bruno Le Floch , Sungjay Lee

We study the properties of 4d N=3 superconformal field theories whose rank is one, i.e. those that reduce to a single vector multiplet on their moduli space of vacua. We find that the moduli space can only be of the form C^3/Z_k for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-12 Takahiro Nishinaka , Yuji Tachikawa

We introduce a new numerical algorithm based on semidefinite programming to efficiently compute bounds on operator dimensions, central charges, and OPE coefficients in 4D conformal and N=1 superconformal field theories. Using our algorithm,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-31 David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin , Alessandro Vichi

We constrain the spectrum of $\mathcal{N}=(1, 1)$ and $\mathcal{N}=(2, 2)$ superconformal field theories in two-dimensions by requiring the NS-NS sector partition function to be invariant under the $\Gamma_\theta$ congruence subgroup of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Jin-Beom Bae , Sungjay Lee , Jaewon Song

We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to study flows of N=4 SYM to non-conformal theories. The dual geometries can be seen as sourced by a Wigner's semicircle distribution of D3 branes. We consider two cases, the first case corresponds to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-27 Carlos Hoyos-Badajoz

We introduce a systematic approach to constructing $\mathcal{N}=1$ Lagrangians for a class of interacting $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs. We analyse in detail the simplest case of the construction, arising from placing branes at an orientifolded…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-10 Iñaki García Etxebarria , Ben Heidenreich , Matteo Lotito , Ajit Kumar Sorout

We revisit the study of the maximally singular point in the Coulomb branch of 4d N=2 SU(N) gauge theory with N_f=2n flavors for N_f<2N. When n >= 2, we find that the low-energy physics is described by two non-trivial superconformal field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-27 Davide Gaiotto , Nathan Seiberg , Yuji Tachikawa