5d Superconformal Field Theories and Graphs
Abstract
We propose a graph-theoretic description to determine and characterize 5d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) that arise as circle reductions of 6d SCFTs. Each 5d SCFT is captured by a graph, called a Combined Fiber Diagram (CFD). Transitions between CFDs encode mass deformations that trigger flows between SCFTs. In this way, the complete set of descendants of a given 6d theory are obtained from a single marginal CFD. The graphs encode key physical information like the superconformal flavor symmetry and BPS states. As an illustration, we ascertain the aforementioned data associated to all the 5d SCFTs descending from 6d minimal and conformal matter for any . This includes predictions for thus far unknown flavor symmetry enhancements.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1906.11820,
title = {5d Superconformal Field Theories and Graphs},
author = {Fabio Apruzzi and Craig Lawrie and Ling Lin and Sakura Schafer-Nameki and Yi-Nan Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.11820},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 figures. Supplementary material available here: https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/schafernamek/CFD