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Geometric classification of 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-08-15 v4 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

The classification of 4d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 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 Q\mathbb{Q}-factorial log-Fano variety with Hodge numbers hp,q=δp,qh^{p,q}=\delta_{p,q}. With some plausible restrictions, this means that the Coulomb branch chiral ring R\mathscr{R} is a graded polynomial ring generated by global holomorphic functions uiu_i of dimension Δi\Delta_i. The coarse-grained classification of the CSG consists in listing the (finitely many) dimension kk-tuples {Δ1,Δ2,,Δk}\{\Delta_1,\Delta_2,\cdots,\Delta_k\} which are realized as Coulomb branch dimensions of some rank-kk CSG: this is the problem we address in this paper. Our sheaf-theoretical analysis leads to an Universal Dimension Formula for the possible {Δ1,,Δk}\{\Delta_1,\cdots,\Delta_k\}'s. For Lagrangian SCFTs the Universal Formula reduces to the fundamental theorem of Springer Theory. The number N(k)\boldsymbol{N}(k) of dimensions allowed in rank kk is given by a certain sum of the Erd\"os-Bateman Number-Theoretic function (sequence A070243 in OEIS) so that for large kk N(k)=2ζ(2)ζ(3)ζ(6)k2+o(k2). \boldsymbol{N}(k)=\frac{2\,\zeta(2)\,\zeta(3)}{\zeta(6)}\,k^2+o(k^2). In the special case k=2k=2 our dimension formula reproduces a recent result by Argyres et al. Class Field Theory implies a subtlety: certain dimension kk-tuples {Δ1,,Δk}\{\Delta_1,\cdots,\Delta_k\} 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 kk's.

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@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

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