Product SCFTs in class-S

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2021)164MaRDI QIDQ2026049zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jacques Distler, Behzat Ergun, Fei Yan

Publication date 17 May 2021

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04727

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theorysupersymmetric gauge theorysupersymmetry and duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: We develop a technique for counting the number of stress tensor multiplets in a 4D $mathcalN=2$ SCFT. This provides a simple diagnostic for when an isolated (non-Lagrangian) SCFT is a product of two (or more) such theories. In class-S, the basic building blocks are the isolated SCFTs arising from the compactification of a 6D (2,0) theory on a 3-punctured sphere ("fixture"). We apply our technique to determine when a fixture is a product SCFT. The answer is that this phenomenon is surprisingly rare. In the low-rank $A_{N-1}$, $D_N$ theories and the $E_6$ theory studied by the first author and his collaborators, it occurs less than $1\mathrm{\%}$ of the time. Of the 2979 fixtures in the (untwisted and twisted) $E_6$ theory, only 23 are product SCFTs. Of these, 22 were known to the original authors. The new one is a product of the ${(E_7)}_8$ Minahan-Nemeschansky theory and a new rank-2 SCFT.

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