Coulomb and Higgs branches from canonical singularities. Part 0

C Closset, S Schäfer-Nameki, YN Wang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract Five-and four-dimensional superconformal field theories with eight supercharges
arise from canonical threefold singularities in M-theory and Type IIB string theory …

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

C Closset, S Giacomelli, S Schäfer-Nameki… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract 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 …

Coulomb and Higgs branches from canonical singularities. Part I. Hypersurfaces with smooth Calabi-Yau resolutions

C Closset, S Schäfer-Nameki, YN Wang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract Compactification of M-theory and of IIB string theory on threefold canonical
singularities gives rise to superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in 5d and 4d, respectively …

Rank-two 5d SCFTs from M-theory at isolated toric singularities: a systematic study

V Saxena - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 - Springer
A bstract We carry out a detailed exploration of the deformations of rank-two five-
dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs)\({\mathcal {T}} _ {\mathbf {X}}\), which …

Trifectas for TN in 5d

J Eckhard, S Schäfer-Nameki, YN Wang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 - Springer
A bstract The trinions TN are a class of 5d\(\mathcal {N}\)= 1 superconformal field theories
(SCFTs) realized as M-theory on ℂ 3/ℤ N× ℤ N. We apply to TN, as well as closely-related …

Five-dimensional SCFTs and gauge theory phases: an M-theory/type IIA perspective

C Closset, M Del Zotto, V Saxena - SciPost Physics, 2019 - scipost.org
We revisit the correspondence between Calabi-Yau (CY) threefold isolated singularities
$\mathbf {X} $ and five-dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs), which arise at …

N= 2 dualities

D Gaiotto - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012 - Springer
A bstract We study the generalization of S-duality and Argyres-Seiberg duality for a large
class of N= 2 superconformal gauge theories. We identify a family of strongly interacting …

1-form symmetry, isolated = 2 SCFTs, and Calabi-Yau threefolds

M Buican, H Jiang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We systematically study 4D\(\mathcal {N}\)= 2 superconformal field theories
(SCFTs) that can be constructed via type IIB string theory on isolated hypersurface …

On 5d SCFTs and their BPS quivers. Part I: B-branes and brane tilings

C Closset, M Del Zotto - arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.13502, 2019 - arxiv.org
We study the spectrum of BPS particles on the Coulomb branch of five-dimensional
superconformal field theories (5d SCFTs) compactified on a circle. By engineering these …

5d SCFTs from decoupling and gluing

F Apruzzi, S Schäfer-Nameki, YN Wang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 - Springer
A bstract We systematically analyse 5d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) obtained by
dimensional reduction from 6d\(\mathcal {N}\)=(1, 0) SCFTs. Such theories have a …