RG domain walls and hybrid triangulations (Q2341028)

Many insights have been achieved in the last ten years in the domain of supersymmetric field theories. Gauge theories have been studied either in two, three or four dimensions. Correlation functions have been computed in curved space and compact of 6-dimensional superconformal field theory (SCFT) have been shown to provide a base for studying low-dimensional field theories and their BPS defects. The 6-dimensional origin of these field theories is somewhat surprising. The present paper analyzes the geometric description of \(N=2\) gauge theories in terms of 6-dimensional \((2,0)\) SCFT. No doubt, in order to obtain a 6-dimensional construction, many subtle questions have to be answered and severe problems have to be solved. This is attempted in this very extensive paper which has seven chapters. Special attention is paid to Janus domain walls given by 4-dimensional Lagrangians. Here, Janus walls reduce to RG walls. These are domain walls encoding RG flows. Simple examples are tested and compared with the so-called Teichmüller theory. The mathematical tool is a parametrization and quantization of framed flat \(\mathrm{SL}(K)\) connections based on triangulated geometries.