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A reformulation of the superconformal Ward identities that combines all the superconformal currents and the associated parameters in one multiplet is given for theories with rigid N=1 or N=2 supersymmetry. This form of the Ward Identities…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 P. S. Howe , P. C. West

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

The $\gamma_i$-deformed $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory is a non-supersymmetric deformation of the maximally-supersymmetric gauge theory in four dimensions which is conformally-invariant at the planar level. At the non-planar level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-03 Qingjun Jin

Planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory (N=4 SYM) is a special quantum field theory. A few of its remarkable features are conformal symmetry at the quantum level, evidence of integrability and, moreover, it is a prime example of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-05 Brenda Penante

We construct, in the framework of the N=4 SYM theory, a supermultiplet of twist-two conformal operators and study their renormalization properties. The components of the supermultiplet have the same anomalous dimension and enter as building…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Belitsky , S. E. Derkachov , G. P. Korchemsky , A. N. Manashov

We solve N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories for arbitrary classical gauge group, i.e. SU(N), SO(N), Sp(N). In particular, we derive the prepotential of the low-energy effective theory, and the corresponding Seiberg-Witten curves. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Nikita Nekrasov , Sergey Shadchin

We study pure Yang--Mills theory on $\Sigma\times S^2$, where $\Sigma$ is a compact Riemann surface, and invariance is assumed under rotations of $S^2$. It is well known that the self-duality equations in this set-up reduce to vortex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-02 Nicholas S. Manton , Norman A. Rink

We examine six-dimensional quantum field theories through the lens of higher-form global symmetries. Every Yang-Mills gauge theory in six dimensions, with field strength $f^{(2)}$, naturally gives rise to a continuous 1-form global symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Clay Cordova , Thomas T. Dumitrescu , Kenneth Intriligator

We combine recent applications of the two-dimensional quantum inverse scattering method to the scattering amplitude problem in four-dimensional N=4 Super Yang-Mills theory. Integrability allows us to obtain a general, explicit method for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-09 Nils Kanning , Tomasz Lukowski , Matthias Staudacher

We consider the nonrelativistic limit of the abelian reduction of the massive ABJM model proposed in \cite{Mohammed:2012gi}, obtaining a supersymmetric version of the Jackiw-Pi model. The system exhibits an ${\cal N}=2$ Super-Schr\"odinger…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-20 Cristhiam Lopez-Arcos , Jeff Murugan , Horatiu Nastase

The low energy effective theory on the moduli space of vacua of 4d superYang-Mills (sYM) theory defines a special K\"ahler geometry. For simple sYM gauge algebras, $\mathfrak{g}$, we classify all compatible special K\"ahler structures by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-14 Philip C. Argyres , Antoine Bourget , Julius F. Grimminger , Matteo Lotito , Mitch Weaver

We review the generalization of the work of Seiberg and Witten on N=2 supersymmetric SU(2) Yang-Mills theory to SU(n) gauge groups. The quantum moduli spaces of the effective low energy theory parametrize a special family of hyperelliptic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Klemm , W. Lerche , S. Theisen , S. Yankielowicz

We study the four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory on the unorientable spacetime manifold $\mathbb{RP}^4$. Using supersymmetric localization, we find that for a large class of local and extended SYM observables…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-18 Yifan Wang

We study strong-weak coupling duality (S-duality) in N=4 supersymmetric non-Abelian Yang-Mills theories. These theories arise naturally as the low-energy limit of four-dimensional toroidal compactifications of the heterotic string. Firstly,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 L. Girardello , A. Giveon , M. Porrati , A. Zaffaroni

We propose a few tests of Seiberg-Witten solutions of $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories by the instanton calculus in twisted gauge theories. We re-examine the low-energy effective abelian theory in the presence of sources and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-07 Andrei Losev , Nikita Nekrasov , Samson Shatashvili

We study the supergravity dual of four-dimensional ${\mathcal{N}=1}$ superconformal field theories arising from wrapping M5-branes on a K\"ahler two-cycle inside a Calabi-Yau threefold. We derive an effective three-dimensional theory living…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-10 Martin Fluder

We study orbifolds of ${\cal N} = 4$ U(n) super-Yang-Mills theory given by discrete subgroups of SU(2) and SU(3). We have reached many interesting observations that have graph-theoretic interpretations. For the subgroups of SU(2), we have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Amihay Hanany , Yang-Hui He

A new class of two dimensional integrable field theories, based on the mathematical notion of Poisson manifolds, and containing gravity-Yang-Mills systems as well as the G/G gauged Wess-Zumino Witten-model, are presented. The local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Schaller , T. Strobl

A new topological conformal field theory in four Euclidean dimensions is constructed from N=4 super Yang-Mills theory by twisting the whole of the conformal group with the whole of the R-symmetry group, resulting in a theory that is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Paul de Medeiros , Jose Figueroa-O'Farrill , Christopher Hull , Bill Spence

We review diverse two-dimensional models emerging on the world sheet of non-Abelian strings in the low-energy limit. Non-Abelian strings are supported in a class of four-dimensional bulk theories with or without supersymmetry. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 M. Shifman , A. Yung