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Simplifying the Type $A$ Argyres-Douglas Landscape

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-05-06 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

A well-established organisational principle for Argyres--Douglas-type N=2\mathcal{N}=2 superconformal field theories in four dimensions is to characterise such theories by the data defining a(n irregular) Hitchin system on CP1\mathbb{CP}^1. The dictionary between Hitchin system data and various features of the corresponding SCFT has been studied extensively, but the overall structure of the resulting space of SCFTs still appears quite complicated. In this work, we systematically delineate a variety of simplifications that arise within this class of constructions due to several large classes of isomorphisms between SCFTs associated with inequivalent Hitchin system data (and their exactly marginal gaugings). We restrict to the most studied class of theories, namely the type AA theories without outer automorphism twists.

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@article{arxiv.2311.12123,
  title  = {Simplifying the Type $A$ Argyres-Douglas Landscape},
  author = {Christopher Beem and Mario Martone and Matteo Sacchi and Palash Singh and Jake Stedman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.12123},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

65 pages; added references and fixed typos in v2

R2 v1 2026-06-28T13:26:38.034Z