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In this paper we consider 4d $\mathrm{SU}(N)$ gauge theories with $N+1$ fundamentals, five antifundamentals and a conjugate two index antisymmetric tensor. The model has been shown to be in a mixed phase in the IR, splitting in an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-12 Antonio Amariti , Pietro Glorioso , Chiara Mascherpa , Andrea Zanetti

In this work we compare different descriptions of the space of vacua of certain three dimensional N=4 superconformal field theories, compactified on a circle and mass-deformed to N=2 in a canonical way. The original N=4 theories are known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-03 Davide Gaiotto , Peter Koroteev

We find an infinite family of $4D$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ interacting superconformal field theories which enter the description of the strong-coupling limit of $SU(2N+1)$ gauge theories with hypermultiplets in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-30 Oscar Chacaltana , Jacques Distler , Anderson Trimm

We consider interesting Seiberg dualities for $Usp$ gauge theories with an antisymmetric, $8$ fundamentals and no superpotential. We reduce to three dimensions and systematically analyze deformations triggered by real and complex masses,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Sergio Benvenuti

We consider $5d$ KK dualities, that is multiple $5d$ gauge theories with the same $6d$ infinite coupling limit. We provide a prescription to associate $4d$ $N=1$ quivers to the $5d$ dual quivers, such that the $4d$ quivers are also dual to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-22 Stephane Bajeot , Sergio Benvenuti

We describe a procedure for classifying 4D N=2 superconformal theories of the type introduced by Davide Gaiotto. Any punctured curve, C, on which the 6D (2,0) SCFT is compactified, may be decomposed into 3-punctured spheres, connected by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Oscar Chacaltana , Jacques Distler

We investigate phases of 3d ${\cal N}=2$ Chern-Simons-matter theories, extending to three dimensions the celebrated correspondence between 2d gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten (GWZW) models and non-linear sigma models (NLSMs) with geometric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Wei Gu , Du Pei , Ming Zhang

We study 4D N=2 superconformal field theories that arise from the compactification of 6D N=(2,0) theories of type D_N on a Riemann surface, in the presence of punctures twisted by a Z_2 outer automorphism. Unlike the untwisted case, the…

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

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 extend the investigation of the recently introduced class ${\cal S}_k$ of 4d $\mathcal{N}=1$ SCFTs, by considering a large family of quiver gauge theories within it, which we denote $\mathcal{S}^1_k$. These theories admit a realization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-12 Sebastian Franco , Hirotaka Hayashi , Angel Uranga

In this paper we present a beautifully consistent web of evidence for the existence of interacting 4d rank-1 $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs obtained from gauging discrete subgroups of global symmetries of other existing 4d rank-1 $\mathcal{N}=2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-07 Philip C. Argyres , Mario Martone

One of the hallmarks of 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) is that on a partial tensor branch, all known theories resemble quiver gauge theories with links comprised of 6D conformal matter, a generalization of weakly coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 Fabio Apruzzi , Jonathan J. Heckman , David R. Morrison , Luigi Tizzano

We study compactification of 6 dimensional (1,0) theories on T^2. We use geometric engineering of these theories via F-theory and employ mirror symmetry technology to solve for the effective 4d N=2 geometry for a large number of the (1,0)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Michele Del Zotto , Cumrun Vafa , Dan Xie

Three-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories with eight supercharges possess a unique duality known as 3d mirror symmetry. Under this correspondence, the Coulomb branch of one theory is equivalent to the Higgs branch of its mirror dual,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Leyi Jiang , Jazz E. Z. Ooi , Richard Stone , Zhenghao Zhong

We construct the BPS quivers with superpotential for the 4d N=2 gauge theories with non-simply laced Lie groups (B_n, C_n, F_4 and G_2). The construction is inspired by the BIKMSV geometric engineering of these gauge groups as non-split…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Sergio Cecotti , Michele Del Zotto

In [GHKK18], Gross-Hacking-Keel-Kontsevich discuss compactifications of cluster varieties from "positive subsets" in the real tropicalization of the mirror. To be more precise, let $\mathfrak{D}$ be the scattering diagram of a cluster…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Man-Wai Cheung , Timothy Magee , Alfredo Nájera Chávez

In this paper we propose 4d and 3d dualities among special unitary gauge theories with fundamentals and antisymmetric flavors and symplectic or orthogonal gauge theories with fundamentals and two index tensor matter. The various dualities…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-24 Antonio Amariti , Fabio Mantegazza , Simone Rota , Andrea Zanetti

We construct a three dimensional deconfinement method which enables us to find new three-dimensional dualities and we apply various techniques developed in four dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories, such as the product gauge groups and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Keita Nii

Motivated by the connection between 4-manifolds and 2d N=(0,2) theories, we study the dynamics of a fairly large class of 2d N=(0,2) gauge theories. We see that physics of such theories is very rich, much as the physics of 4d N=1 theories.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Abhijit Gadde , Sergei Gukov , Pavel Putrov

One interesting feature of 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories is that gauge-invariant operators can decouple by strong-coupling effects, leading to emergent flavor symmetries in the IR. The details of such decoupling, however, depends very…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-29 Jeongseog Lee , Masahito Yamazaki