Top down approach to 6D SCFTs

JJ Heckman, T Rudelius - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Six-dimensional (6D) superconformal field theories (SCFTs) occupy a central place
in the study of quantum field theories encountered in high energy theory. This article reviews …

On the 6d Origin of Non-invertible Symmetries in 4d

V Bashmakov, M Del Zotto, A Hasan - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract It is well-known that six-dimensional superconformal field theories can be exploited
to unravel interesting features of lower-dimensional theories obtained via compactifications …

A slow review of the AGT correspondence

B Le Floch - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Starting with a gentle approach to the Alday–Gaiotto–Tachikawa (AGT) correspondence
from its 6d origin, these notes provide a wide (albeit shallow) survey of the literature on …

SymTFTs and duality defects from 6d SCFTs on 4-manifolds

J Chen, W Cui, B Haghighat, YN Wang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract In this work we study particular TQFTs in three dimensions, known as Symmetry
Topological Field Theories (or SymTFTs), to identify line defects of two-dimensional CFTs …

6D SCFTs, center-flavor symmetries, and Stiefel-Whitney compactifications

JJ Heckman, C Lawrie, L Lin, HY Zhang, G Zoccarato - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
The center-flavor symmetry of a gauge theory specifies the global form of consistent gauge
and flavor bundle background field configurations. For 6D gauge theories which arise from a …

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 …

Snowmass white paper on SCFTs

PC Argyres, JJ Heckman, K Intriligator… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Superconformal field theories (SCFTs) occupy a central role in the study of many aspects of
quantum field theory. In this white paper for the Snowmass process we give a brief overview …

Gauged 2-form symmetries in 6D SCFTs coupled to gravity

AP Braun, M Larfors, PK Oehlmann - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We study six dimensional supergravity theories with superconformal sectors
(SCFTs). Instances of such theories can be engineered using type IIB strings, or more …

Universal features of BPS strings in six-dimensional SCFTs

M Del Zotto, G Lockhart - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 - Springer
In theories with extended supersymmetry the protected observables of UV superconformal
fixed points are found in a number of contexts to be encoded in the BPS solitons along an IR …

Defect a-theorem and a-maximization

Y Wang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract Conformal defects describe the universal behaviors of a conformal field theory
(CFT) in the presence of a boundary or more general impurities. The coupled critical system …