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We provide a new extension to the geometric construction of 6d $(1,0)$ SCFTs that encapsulates Higgs branch structures with identical global symmetry but different spectra. In particular, we find that there exist distinct 6d $(1,0)$ SCFTs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-29 Jacques Distler , Monica Jinwoo Kang , Craig Lawrie

The infinite series of 4d $\mathcal{N} = 2$ SCFTs with central charge relation $a_\text{4d} = c_\text{4d}$ are closely related to the $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills. In this paper we study the modular properties of their associated VOAs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-09 Yiwen Pan , Peihe Yang

We continue our studies of the correspondence between 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs and 2d W-algebras. The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between 2d lisse W-algebras and their 4d SCFT partners. The lisse W-algebra is the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-10 Dan Xie , Wenbin Yan

We initiate the study of boundary Vertex Operator Algebras (VOAs) of topologically twisted 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ rank-0 SCFTs. This is a recently introduced class of $\mathcal{N}=4$ SCFTs that by definition have zero-dimensional Higgs and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-21 Andrea E. V. Ferrari , Niklas Garner , Heeyeon Kim

There are two major ways of constructing 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs): the first one is putting a 6d $(2,0)$ theory on a punctured Riemann surface (class-S theory), and the second one is putting type IIB string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-31 Bohan Li , Dan Xie , Wenbin Yan

In this note, we consider so-called "Higgs Branch Localization" for four dimensional N=2 field theories on 4d ellipsoid. We find a new set of saddle point equations arising from additional Higgs branch deformation term, whose solutions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-21 Heng-Yu Chen , Tsung-Hsuan Tsai

Associated varieties of vertex algebras are analogue of the associated varieties of primitive ideals of the universal enveloping algebras of semisimple Lie algebras. They not only capture some of the important properties of vertex algebras…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Tomoyuki Arakawa

Among the elementary building blocks in the atomic classification of 5d SCFTs there are 5d bifundamental conformal matter theories of various kinds. In this work we study the Higgs branch of these models and of the corresponding molecules…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-25 Mario De Marco , Michele Del Zotto , Julius F. Grimminger , Andrea Sangiovanni

We explore the geometrical structure of Higgs branches of quantum field theories with 8 supercharges in 3, 4, 5 and 6 dimensions. They are symplectic singularities, and as such admit a decomposition (or foliation) into so-called symplectic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Antoine Bourget , Santiago Cabrera , Julius F. Grimminger , Amihay Hanany , Marcus Sperling , Anton Zajac , Zhenghao Zhong

Even though for generic $\mathcal{N}=1$ theories it is not possible to separate distinct branches of supersymmetric vacua, in this paper we study a special class of $\mathcal{N}=1$ SCFTs, these of Class $\mathcal{S}_k$ for which it is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 Thomas Bourton , Alessandro Pini , Elli Pomoni

We propose an algebro-geometric interpretation of the Schur and Macdonald indices of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs). We conjecture that there exists an affine scheme $X$, which reduces to the Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-12 Monica Jinwoo Kang , Craig Lawrie , Jaewon Song

We present a proposal for the description of the Higgs branch of four-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. We focus on a finite Sp(N) N=2 theory arising as dual of a configuration…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Zachary Guralnik , Stefano Kovacs , Bogdan Kulik

Compactification of M-theory and of IIB string theory on threefold canonical singularities gives rise to superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in 5d and 4d, respectively. The resolutions and deformations of the singularities encode salient…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Cyril Closset , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Yi-Nan Wang

We study the singularities of the Higgs branch of supersymmetric U(1)^r gauge theories with eight supercharges. We derive new solutions for the moduli space of vacua preserving manifestly the eight supercharges by using a geometric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Belhaj , E. H. Saidi

We analyze the superconformal theories (SCFTs) which arise in the low-energy limit of N=(4,4) supersymmetric gauge theories in two dimensions, primarily the Higgs branch SCFT. By a direct field theory analysis we find a continuum of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Ofer Aharony , Micha Berkooz

This is the companion paper of the letter arXiv:2410.15695, containing all the details and series of examples on a 4d mirror symmetry for the class-$\mathcal{S}$ theories which relates the representation theory of the chiral quantization of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-05 Yiwen Pan , Wenbin Yan

It has been recently shown that the celebrated SCFT$_4$/VOA$_2$ correspondence can be bridged via three-dimensional field theories arising from a specific R-symmetry twisted circle reduction. We apply this twisted reduction to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-07 Arash Arabi Ardehali , Dongmin Gang , Neville Joshua Rajappa , Matteo Sacchi

We define and study a class of $\mathcal{N}=2$ vertex operator algebras $\mathcal{W}_{\mathcal{\mathsf{G}}}$ labelled by complex reflection groups. They are extensions of the $\mathcal{N}=2$ super Virasoro algebra obtained by introducing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Federico Bonetti , Carlo Meneghelli , Leonardo Rastelli

In this letter, we propose a 4d mirror symmetry for the class-$\mathcal{S}$ theories which relates the representation theory of the chiral quantization of the Higgs branch and the geometry of the Coulomb branch. We study the representation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-23 Yiwen Pan , Wenbin Yan

We give an explicit formula for the Higgs and Coulomb branch Hilbert series for the class of 3d N=4 superconformal gauge theories T^{\sigma}_{\rho}(G) corresponding to a set of D3 branes ending on NS5 and D5-branes, with or without O3…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Stefano Cremonesi , Amihay Hanany , Noppadol Mekareeya , Alberto Zaffaroni