Geometric classification of 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs
Abstract
The classification of 4d SCFTs boils down to the classification of conical special geometries with closed Reeb orbits (CSG). Under mild assumptions, one shows that the underlying complex space of a CSG is (birational to) an affine cone over a simply-connected -factorial log-Fano variety with Hodge numbers . With some plausible restrictions, this means that the Coulomb branch chiral ring is a graded polynomial ring generated by global holomorphic functions of dimension . The coarse-grained classification of the CSG consists in listing the (finitely many) dimension -tuples which are realized as Coulomb branch dimensions of some rank- CSG: this is the problem we address in this paper. Our sheaf-theoretical analysis leads to an Universal Dimension Formula for the possible 's. For Lagrangian SCFTs the Universal Formula reduces to the fundamental theorem of Springer Theory. The number of dimensions allowed in rank is given by a certain sum of the Erd\"os-Bateman Number-Theoretic function (sequence A070243 in OEIS) so that for large In the special case our dimension formula reproduces a recent result by Argyres et al. Class Field Theory implies a subtlety: certain dimension -tuples are consistent only if supplemented by additional selection rules on the electro-magnetic charges, that is, for a SCFT with these Coulomb dimensions not all charges/fluxes consistent with Dirac quantization are permitted. We illustrate the various aspects with several examples and perform a number of explicit checks. We include tables of dimensions for the first few 's.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1801.04542,
title = {Geometric classification of 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs},
author = {Matteo Caorsi and Sergio Cecotti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.04542},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
119 pages, 11 tables (3 of them multi-page), 52 footnotes. ADDED: a clarification in section 6.2 and example 20. ADDED v3: better presentation of the tables