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Tinkertoys for the E7 Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-10-04 v2

Abstract

We classify the class SS theories of type E7E_7. These are four-dimensional N=2\mathcal{N}=2 superconformal field theories arising from the compactification of the E7E_7 (2,0)(2,0) theory on a punctured Riemann surface, CC. The classification is given by listing all 3-punctured spheres ("fixtures"), and connecting cylinders, which can arise in a pants-decomposition of CC. We find exactly 11,000 fixtures with three regular punctures, and an additional 48 with one "irregular puncture" (in the sense used in our previous works). To organize this large number of theories, we have created a web application at https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/class-S/E7/ . Among these theories, we find 10 new ones with a simple exceptional global symmetry group, as well as a new rank-2 SCFT and several new rank-3 SCFTs. As an application, we study the strong-coupling limit of the E7E_7 gauge theory with 3 hypermultiplets in the 5656. Using our results, we also verify recent conjectures that the T2T^2 compactification of certain 6d6d (1,0)(1,0) theories can alternatively be realized in class SS as fixtures in the E7E_7 or E8E_8 theories.

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@article{arxiv.1704.07890,
  title  = {Tinkertoys for the E7 Theory},
  author = {Oscar Chacaltana and Jacques Distler and Anderson Trimm and Yinan Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.07890},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Fixed one entry in table of interacting fixtures with an irregular puncture

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