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Vector spaces of (framed) BPS states of Lagrangian four-dimensional N=2 field theories can be defined in semiclassical chambers in terms of the $L^2$-cohomology of Dirac-like operators on monopole moduli spaces. This was spelled out…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-06 T. Daniel Brennan , Gregory W. Moore

It has been argued that the Nekrasov's partition function gives the generating function of refined BPS state counting in the compactification of M theory on local Calabi-Yau spaces. We show that a refined version of the topological vertex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-04 Hidetoshi Awata , Hiroaki Kanno

We apply the numerical conformal bootstrap to correlators of Coulomb and Higgs branch operators in $4d$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal theories. We start by revisiting previous results on single correlators of Coulomb branch operators. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Aleix Gimenez-Grau , Pedro Liendo

We prove a variant of the so-called bilinear embedding theorem for operators in divergence form with complex coefficients and with nonnegative locally integrable potentials, subject to mixed boundary conditions, and acting on arbitrary open…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Andrea Carbonaro , Oliver Dragičević

We introduce a novel harmonic superspace for $3d$ $\mathcal{N}=6$ superconformal field theories that is tailor made for the study of correlation functions of BPS operators. We calculate a host of two- and three-point functions in full…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Pedro Liendo , Carlo Meneghelli , Vladimir Mitev

The SCFT/VOA correspondence provides a powerful framework for studying 4d $\mathcal N=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) through the mathematical machinery of 2d vertex operator algebras (VOAs). It captures the Schur operators of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-01 Hongliang Jiang

The Schur index is a powerful tool to probe the spectrum and dualities of 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs), deeply related to 2d vertex operator algebras (VOAs). In this paper, we compute the Schur index in closed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-26 Yiwen Pan , Peihe Yang

We systematically analyze the large-$N$ limit of the superconformal index of $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal theories having a quiver description. The index of these theories is known in terms of unitary matrix integrals, which we calculate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Alejandro Cabo-Bizet , Davide Cassani , Dario Martelli , Sameer Murthy

In this paper we compute the superconformal index of 2d (2,2) supersymmetric gauge theories. The 2d superconformal index, a.k.a. flavored elliptic genus, is computed by a unitary matrix integral much like the matrix integral that computes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Abhijit Gadde , Sergei Gukov

This is the 8th article in the collection of reviews "Exact results in N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories", ed. J. Teschner. The article reviews the superconformal index. It is often simpler to calculate than instanton partition functions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-23 Leonardo Rastelli , Shlomo S. Razamat

It is shown that the deformed Macdonald-Ruijsenaars operators can be described as the restrictions on certain affine subvarieties of the usual Macdonald-Ruijsenaars operator in infinite number of variables. The ideals of these varieties are…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2008-02-22 A. N. Sergeev , A. P. Veselov

We consider the superconformal index of class S theories of type D, which arise by compactification of the (2,0) D_n theories on a punctured Riemann surface C. We also allow for the presence of twist lines on C associated to the Z_2 outer…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-04 Madalena Lemos , Wolfger Peelaers , Leonardo Rastelli

We study certain exactly marginal gaugings involving arbitrary numbers of Argyres-Douglas (AD) theories and show that the resulting Schur indices are related to those of certain Lagrangian theories of class $\mathcal{S}$ via simple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Matthew Buican , Linfeng Li , Takahiro Nishinaka

We interpret aspects of the Schur indices, that were identified with characters of highest weight modules in Virasoro $(p,p')=(2,2k+3)$ minimal models for $k=1,2,\dots$, in terms of paths that first appeared in exact solutions in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-30 Omar Foda , Rui-Dong Zhu

We consider families of theories with large N=4 superconformal symmetry. We define an index generalizing the elliptic genus of theories with N=2 symmetry. In contrast to the N=2 case, the new index constrains part of the non-BPS spectrum.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei Gukov , Emil Martinec , Gregory Moore , Andrew Strominger

The Schur index in four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory with $U(N)$ gauge group has a natural two-parameter deformation. We find that a matrix integral in such a deformed Schur index can be exactly evaluated by using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-07 Yasuyuki Hatsuda

We study a rich set of four-dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs) with both central charges identical: $a = c$. These are constructed via the diagonal $\mathcal{N}=2$ or $\mathcal{N}=1$ gauging of the flavor symmetry $G$ of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-14 Monica Jinwoo Kang , Craig Lawrie , Ki-Hong Lee , Jaewon Song

We re-derive semi-shortening conditions for four-dimensional superconformal field theory with a different approach. These conditions have similar patterns that can be generalized to weaker constraints, including all those of F. Dolan and H.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-10 C. -Y. Ju , W. Siegel

We conjecture that decoupling relations in the operator product expansion of a 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theory (SCFT) are encoded by an algebro-geometric object: a bifiltered affine scheme. We demonstrate how this scheme…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Monica Jinwoo Kang , Craig Lawrie , Jaewon Song

We present a unifying theme relating BPS partition functions and superconformal indices. In the case with complex SUSY central charges (as in N=2 in d=4 and N=(2,2) in d=2) the known results can be reinterpreted as the statement that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-22 Amer Iqbal , Cumrun Vafa