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 …

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 …

Classification of 5d = 1 gauge theories

L Bhardwaj, G Zafrir - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 - Springer
A bstract We classify 5d\(\mathcal {N}\)= 1 gauge theories carrying a simple gauge group
that can arise by mass-deforming 5d SCFTs and 6d SCFTs (compactified on a circle …

Higher form symmetries and M-theory

F Albertini, M Del Zotto, I García Etxebarria… - Journal of High Energy …, 2020 - Springer
A bstract We discuss the geometric origin of discrete higher form symmetries of quantum
field theories in terms of defect groups from geometric engineering in M-theory. The flux non …

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 and 6D SCFTs from orbifolds

J Tian, YN Wang - SciPost Physics, 2022 - scipost.org
We study the orbifold singularities $ X=\mathbb {C}^ 3/\Gamma $ where $\Gamma $ is a
finite subgroup of $ SU (3) $. M-theory on this orbifold singularity gives rise to a 5d SCFT …

(5d RG-flow) trees in the tropical rain forest

M Van Beest, A Bourget, J Eckhard… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract 5d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) can be obtained from 6d SCFTs by circle
compactification and mass deformation. Successive decoupling of hypermultiplet matter and …

2-Group symmetries and their classification in 6d

F Apruzzi, L Bhardwaj, DSW Gould, S Schäfer-Nameki - SciPost Physics, 2022 - scipost.org
We uncover 2-group symmetries in 6d superconformal field theories. These symmetries
arise when the discrete 1-form symmetry and continuous flavor symmetry group of a theory …