scholarly journals Mirror Symmetry and Moduli Spaces of Superconformal Field Theories

1995 ◽  
pp. 1304-1314
Author(s):  
David R. Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Moduli Spaces ◽  
Mirror Symmetry ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Superconformal Field Theories

scholarly journals Coulomb and Higgs branches from canonical singularities. Part 0

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyril Closset ◽  
Sakura Schäfer-Nameki ◽  
Yi-Nan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Moduli Spaces ◽  
Mirror Symmetry ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Flavor Symmetry ◽  
Superconformal Field Theories ◽  
Crepant Resolutions ◽  
Type Iib String Theory ◽  
The One ◽  
M Theory

Abstract Five- and four-dimensional superconformal field theories with eight supercharges arise from canonical threefold singularities in M-theory and Type IIB string theory, respectively. We study their Coulomb and Higgs branches using crepant resolutions and deformations of the singularities. We propose a relation between the resulting moduli spaces, by compactifying the theories to 3d, followed by 3d $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 mirror symmetry and an S-type gauging of an abelian flavor symmetry. In particular, we use this correspondence to determine the Higgs branch of some 5d SCFTs and their magnetic quivers from the geometry. As an application of the general framework, we observe that singularities that engineer Argyres-Douglas theories in Type IIB also give rise to rank-0 5d SCFTs in M-theory. We also compute the higher-form symmetries of the 4d and 5d SCFTs, including the one-form symmetries of generalized Argyres-Douglas theories of type (G, G′).

BRANE TILINGS

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (18) ◽  
pp. 2977-3038 ◽  
Author(s):  
KRISTIAN D. KENNAWAY
Keyword(s):  
Moduli Space ◽  
Mirror Symmetry ◽  
Gauge Theories ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Einstein Metric ◽  
Dimensional Torus ◽  
Infinite Class ◽  
Superconformal Field Theories ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dimer Models

We review and extend the progress made over the past few years in understanding the structure of toric quiver gauge theories; those which are induced on the worldvolume of a stack of D3-branes placed at the tip of a toric Calabi–Yau cone, at an "orbifold point" in Kähler moduli space. These provide an infinite class of four-dimensional [Formula: see text] superconformal field theories which may be studied in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. It is now understood that these gauge theories are completely specified by certain two-dimensional torus graphs, called brane tilings, and the combinatorics of the dimer models on these graphs. In particular, knowledge of the dual Sasaki–Einstein metric is not required to determine the gauge theory, only topological and symplectic properties of the toric Calabi–Yau cone. By analyzing the symmetries of the toric quiver theories we derive the dimer models and use them to construct the moduli space of the theory both classically and semiclassically. Using mirror symmetry the brane tilings are shown to arise in string theory on the worldvolumes of the fractional D6-branes that are mirror to the stack of D3-branes at the tip of the cone.

scholarly journals New $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 2 superconformal field theories from $$ \mathcal{S} $$-folds

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Giacomelli ◽  
Carlo Meneghelli ◽  
Wolfger Peelaers
Keyword(s):  
Moduli Spaces ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Coulomb Branch ◽  
Infinite Class ◽  
Superconformal Field Theories ◽  
New Class

Abstract We study the four-dimensional $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 superconformal field theories that describe D3-branes probing the recently constructed $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 $$ \mathcal{S} $$ S -folds in F-theory. We introduce a novel, infinite class of superconformal field theories related to $$ \mathcal{S} $$ S -fold theories via partial Higgsing. We determine several properties of both the $$ \mathcal{S} $$ S -fold models and this new class of theories, including their central charges, Coulomb branch spectrum, and moduli spaces of vacua, by bringing to bear an array of field-theoretical techniques, to wit, torus-compactifications of six-dimensional $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = (1, 0) theories, class $$ \mathcal{S} $$ S technology, and the SCFT/VOA correspondence.

scholarly journals On the compactification of 5d theories to 4d

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Martone ◽  
Gabi Zafrir
Keyword(s):  
Strong Coupling ◽  
Moduli Spaces ◽  
Integrable Systems ◽  
Strong Coupling Limit ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Superconformal Field Theories ◽  
General Properties ◽  
Rank 2 ◽  
Mass Deformation

Abstract We study general properties of the mapping between 5d and 4d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) under both twisted circle compactification and tuning of local relevant deformation and CB moduli. After elucidating in generality when a 5d SCFT reduces to a 4d one, we identify nearly all $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 1 5d SCFT parents of rank-2 4d$$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 SCFTs. We then use this result to map out the mass deformation trajectories among the rank-2 theories in 4d. This can be done by first understanding the mass deformations of the 5d$$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 1 SCFTs and then map them to 4d. The former task can be easily achieved by exploiting the fact that the 5d parent theories can be obtained as the strong coupling limit of Lagrangian theories, and the latter by understanding the behavior under compactification. Finally we identify a set of general criteria that 4d moduli spaces of vacua have to satisfy when the corresponding SCFTs are related by mass deformations and check that all our RG-flows satisfy them. Many of the mass deformations we find are not visible from the corresponding complex integrable systems.

scholarly journals Connecting 5d Higgs branches via Fayet-Iliopoulos deformations

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marieke van Beest ◽  
Simone Giacomelli
Keyword(s):  
Mirror Symmetry ◽  
Weak Coupling ◽  
Gauge Theories ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Local Version ◽  
Coulomb Branch ◽  
Superconformal Field Theories ◽  
Mirror Map

Abstract We describe how the geometry of the Higgs branch of 5d superconformal field theories is transformed under movement along the extended Coulomb branch. Working directly with the (unitary) magnetic quiver, we demonstrate a correspondence between Fayet-Iliopoulos deformations in 3d and 5d mass deformations. When the Higgs branch has multiple cones, characterised by a collection of magnetic quivers, the mirror map is not globally well-defined, however we are able to utilize the correspondence to establish a local version of mirror symmetry. We give several detailed examples of deformations, including decouplings and weak-coupling limits, in (Dn, Dn) conformal matter theories, TN theory and its parent PN, for which we find new Lagrangian descriptions given by quiver gauge theories with fundamental and anti-symmetric matter.

scholarly journals 3d mirrors of the circle reduction of twisted A2N theories of class S

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuele Beratto ◽  
Simone Giacomelli ◽  
Noppadol Mekareeya ◽  
Matteo Sacchi
Keyword(s):  
Moduli Spaces ◽  
Mirror Symmetry ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Coulomb Branch ◽  
Superconformal Field Theories ◽  
Gauge Groups ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Group Flow ◽  
Mirror Theory

Abstract Mirror symmetry has proven to be a powerful tool to study several properties of higher dimensional superconformal field theories upon compactification to three dimensions. We propose a quiver description for the mirror theories of the circle reduction of twisted A2N theories of class S in four dimensions. Although these quivers bear a resemblance to the star-shaped quivers previously studied in the literature, they contain unitary, symplectic and special orthogonal gauge groups, along with hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation. The vacuum moduli spaces of these quiver theories are studied in detail. The Coulomb branch Hilbert series of the mirror theory can be matched with that of the Higgs branch of the corresponding four dimensional theory, providing a non-trivial check of our proposal. Moreover various deformations by mass and Fayet-Iliopoulos terms of such quiver theories are investigated. The fact that several of them flow to expected theories also gives another strong support for the proposal. Utilising the mirror quiver description, we discover a new supersymmetry enhancement renormalisation group flow.

scholarly journals Classification of all $\mathcal{N}\geq 3$ moduli space orbifold geometries at rank 2

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Argyres ◽  
Antoine Bourget ◽  
Mario Martone
Keyword(s):  
Moduli Space ◽  
Moduli Spaces ◽  
Large Majority ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Coordinate Ring ◽  
Coulomb Branch ◽  
Superconformal Field Theories ◽  
Complex Dimension ◽  
Rank 2

We classify orbifold geometries which can be interpreted as moduli spaces of four-dimensional \mathcal{N}\geq 3𝒩≥3 superconformal field theories up to rank 2 (complex dimension 6). The large majority of the geometries we find correspond to moduli spaces of known theories or discretely gauged version of them. Remarkably, we find 6 geometries which are not realized by any known theory, of which 3 have an \mathcal{N}=2𝒩=2 Coulomb branch slice with a non-freely generated coordinate ring, suggesting the existence of new, exotic \mathcal{N}=3𝒩=3 theories.

Geometry and Physics: Volume II

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Moduli Spaces ◽  
Mirror Symmetry ◽  
Geometric Analysis ◽  
Mathematical Physics ◽  
Poisson Geometry ◽  
Special Holonomy ◽  
Low Dimensional Topology ◽  
Generalized Complex Structures ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Low Dimensional

These volumes contain the proceedings of the conference held at Aarhus, Oxford and Madrid in September 2016 to mark the seventieth birthday of Nigel Hitchin, one of the world’s foremost geometers and Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford. The proceedings contain twenty-nine articles, including three by Fields medallists (Donaldson, Mori and Yau). The articles cover a wide range of topics in geometry and mathematical physics, including the following: Riemannian geometry, geometric analysis, special holonomy, integrable systems, dynamical systems, generalized complex structures, symplectic and Poisson geometry, low-dimensional topology, algebraic geometry, moduli spaces, Higgs bundles, geometric Langlands programme, mirror symmetry and string theory. These volumes will be of interest to researchers and graduate students both in geometry and mathematical physics.

Modular invariance in N=2 superconformal field theories

1987 ◽  
Vol 195 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Ravanini ◽  
Sung-Kil Yang
Keyword(s):  
Field Theories ◽  
Modular Invariance ◽  
Superconformal Field Theories

scholarly journals 5d and 4d SCFTs: canonical singularities, trinions and S-dualities

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyril Closset ◽  
Simone Giacomelli ◽  
Sakura Schäfer-Nameki ◽  
Yi-Nan Wang
Keyword(s):  
String Theory ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Flavor Symmetry ◽  
Crepant Resolution ◽  
Superconformal Field Theories ◽  
Hypersurface Singularities ◽  
Canonical Singularities ◽  
Type Iib String Theory ◽  
M Theory

Abstract Canonical threefold singularities in M-theory and Type IIB string theory give rise to superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in 5d and 4d, respectively. In this paper, we study canonical hypersurface singularities whose resolutions contain residual terminal singularities and/or 3-cycles. We focus on a certain class of ‘trinion’ singularities which exhibit these properties. In Type IIB, they give rise to 4d $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 SCFTs that we call $$ {D}_p^b $$ D p b (G)-trinions, which are marginal gaugings of three SCFTs with G flavor symmetry. In order to understand the 5d physics of these trinion singularities in M-theory, we reduce these 4d and 5d SCFTs to 3d $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 theories, thus determining the electric and magnetic quivers (or, more generally, quiverines). In M-theory, residual terminal singularities give rise to free sectors of massless hypermultiplets, which often are discretely gauged. These free sectors appear as ‘ugly’ components of the magnetic quiver of the 5d SCFT. The 3-cycles in the crepant resolution also give rise to free hypermultiplets, but their physics is more subtle, and their presence renders the magnetic quiver ‘bad’. We propose a way to redeem the badness of these quivers using a class $$ \mathcal{S} $$ S realization. We also discover new S-dualities between different $$ {D}_p^b $$ D p b (G)-trinions. For instance, a certain E8 gauging of the E8 Minahan-Nemeschansky theory is S-dual to an E8-shaped Lagrangian quiver SCFT.

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