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 …

Fibers add flavor. Part I. Classification of 5d SCFTs, flavor symmetries and BPS states

F Apruzzi, C Lawrie, L Lin, S Schäfer-Nameki… - Journal of High Energy …, 2019 - Springer
We propose a graph-based approach to 5d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) based on
their realization as M-theory compactifications on singular elliptic Calabi-Yau threefolds …

Fibers add flavor. Part II. 5d SCFTs, gauge theories, and dualities

F Apruzzi, C Lawrie, L Lin, S Schäfer-Nameki… - Journal of High Energy …, 2020 - Springer
A bstract In [1, 2] we proposed an approach based on graphs to characterize 5d
superconformal field theories (SCFTs), which arise as compactifications of 6d\(\mathcal …

0-form, 1-form, and 2-group symmetries via cutting and gluing of orbifolds

M Cvetič, JJ Heckman, M Hübner, E Torres - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Orbifold singularities of M-theory constitute the building blocks of a broad class of
supersymmetric quantum field theories (SQFTs). In this paper we show how the local data of …

On geometric classification of 5d SCFTs

P Jefferson, S Katz, HC Kim, C Vafa - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 - Springer
A bstract We formulate geometric conditions necessary for engineering 5d superconformal
field theories (SCFTs) via M-theory compactification on a local Calabi-Yau 3-fold. Extending …

Higher-form symmetries of 6d and 5d theories

L Bhardwaj, S Schäfer-Nameki - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We describe general methods for determining higher-form symmetry groups of
known 5d and 6d superconformal field theories (SCFTs), and 6d little string theories (LSTs) …

5d superconformal field theories and graphs

F Apruzzi, C Lawrie, L Lin, S Schäfer-Nameki… - Physics Letters B, 2020 - Elsevier
We propose graphs, the Combined Fiber Diagrams (CFD), to characterize all 5d
superconformal field theories (SCFTs) that arise as S 1-reductions of 6d SCFTs. Transitions …

Twisted circle compactifications of 6d SCFTs

L Bhardwaj, P Jefferson, HC Kim, HC Tarazi… - Journal of High Energy …, 2020 - Springer
A bstract We study 6d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) compactified on a circle with
arbitrary twists. The theories obtained after compactification, often referred to as 5d Kaluza …