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We study a two-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(0,2)$ supersymmetric duality and construct novel Bailey pairs for the associated elliptic genera. This framework provides a systematic method to establish the equivalence of the elliptic genera of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-23 Zehra Akbulut , Ilmar Gahramanov , Anıl Kahraman , Mustafa Mullahasanoglu , Yaren Yıldırım

Type-IIB supersymmetric theories have an SL(2,Z) invariance, known as U-duality, which controls the non-perturbative behavior of the theory. Under SL(2,Z) the supercharges are doublets, implying that the bosonic charges would be singlets or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-25 Itzhak Bars

We study the BPS spectra of N=2 complete quantum field theories in four dimensions. For examples that can be described by a pair of M5 branes on a punctured Riemann surface we explain how triangulations of the surface fix a BPS quiver and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-14 Murad Alim , Sergio Cecotti , Clay Cordova , Sam Espahbodi , Ashwin Rastogi , Cumrun Vafa

We extend previous work on the soft breaking of $N=2$ supersymmetric QCD. We present the formalism for the breaking due to a dilaton spurion for a general gauge group and obtain the exact effective potential. We obtain some general features…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 L. Alvarez-Gaume , M. Marino

BPS representations of 5-dimensional supersymmetry algebras are classified. For BPS states preserving 1/2 the supersymmetry, there are two distinct classes of multiplets for N=4 supersymmetry and three classes for N=8 supersymmetry. For N=4…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 C. M. Hull

We find a simple relation between two-dimensional BPS N=2 superconformal blocks and bosonic Virasoro conformal blocks, which allows us to analyze the crossing equations for BPS 4-point functions in unitary (2,2) superconformal theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Ying-Hsuan Lin , Shu-Heng Shao , Yifan Wang , Xi Yin

We study the spectrum of the domain walls interpolating between different chirally asymmetric vacua in supersymmetric QCD with the SU(N) gauge group and including N-1 pairs of chiral matter multiplets in fundamental and anti-fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Smilga

Using a recently proposed duality for $U(N)$ supersymmetric QCD (SQCD) in three dimensions with monopole superpotential, in this paper we derive the mirror dual description of $\mathcal{N}=2$ SQCD with unitary gauge group, generalizing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-23 Simone Giacomelli , Noppadol Mekareeya

We study the low energy behaviour of N=(2,2) supersymmetric gauge theories in 1+1 dimensions, with orthogonal and symplectic gauge groups and matters in the fundamental representation. We observe supersymmetry breaking in super-Yang-Mills…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Kentaro Hori

We define the notion of a complete N=2 supersymmetric theory in 4 dimensions as a UV complete theory for which all the BPS central charges can be arbitrarily varied as we vary its Coulomb branch parameters, masses, and coupling constants.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-12 Sergio Cecotti , Cumrun Vafa

I review my work together with Piljin Yi on the spectrum of BPS-saturated states in N = 2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories. In an M-theory description, such states are realized as certain two-brane configurations. We first show how the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Mans Henningson

We systematically study 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ dualities for $U(N_c)$ gauge theories with different CS levels for the abelian and the non-abelian factors. We derive such dualities by a gauging/ungauging procedure on other known dualities and by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-14 Antonio Amariti , Simone Rota

We explore the relationship between four-dimensional N=2 quantum field theories and their associated BPS quivers. For a wide class of theories including super-Yang-Mills theories, Argyres-Douglas models, and theories defined by M5-branes on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-20 Murad Alim , Sergio Cecotti , Clay Cordova , Sam Espahbodi , Ashwin Rastogi , Cumrun Vafa

We consider minimally supersymmetric QCD in 2+1 dimensions, with Chern-Simons and superpotential interactions. We propose an infrared $SU(N) \leftrightarrow U(k)$ duality involving gauge-singlet fields on one of the two sides. It shares…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-17 Francesco Benini , Sergio Benvenuti

The so-called 2d/4d correspondences connect two-dimensional conformal field theory (2d CFT), N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories and quantum integrable systems. The latter in the simplest case of the SU(2) gauge group are nothing but the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Marcin R. Piatek , Artur R. Pietrykowski

We derive the central charge and BPS equations from the low-energy effective action for N=2 SU(2) Yang-Mills theory in the Coulomb phase, using a systematic, canonical procedure. We then obtain solutions for monopole and dyon BPS states,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Ioan A. Popescu , Alfred D. Shapere

We study four dimensional $N=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories with matter multiplets. For all such models for which the gauge group is $SU(2)$, we derive the exact metric on the moduli space of quantum vacua and the exact spectrum of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-07 N. Seiberg , E. Witten

We study the spectrum of the domain walls interpolating between different chirally asymmetric vacua in supersymmetric QCD with the SU(3) gauge group and including 2 pairs of chiral matter multiplets in fundamental and anti-fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 A. V. Smilga , A. I. Veselov

We discuss the generalization of recently discovered BPS configurations, corresponding to the planar string networks, to non-planar ones by considering the U-duality symmetry of type II string theory in various dimensions. As an explicit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Sandip Bhattacharyya , Alok Kumar , Subir Mukhopadhyay

We derive general BPS boundary conditions in two-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ supersymmetric gauge theories. We analyze the solutions of these boundary conditions, and in particular those that allow the bulk fields to have poles at the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-19 Tadashi Okazaki , Douglas J. Smith