Geometric classification of 4d N=2 SCFTs

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2018)138MaRDI QIDQ2413741zbMATH OpenFDO

Publication date 14 September 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04542

conformal field theory differential and algebraic geometry extended supersymmetry

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

Abstract: The classification of 4d

m a t h c a l N = 2

SCFTs boils down to the classification of conical special geometries with closed Reeb orbits (CSG). Under mild assumptions, one shows that the underlying complex space of a CSG is (birational to) an affine cone over a simply-connected

m a t h b b Q

-factorial log-Fano variety with Hodge numbers

h^{p, q} = d e l t a_{p, q}

. With some plausible restrictions, this means that the Coulomb branch chiral ring

m a t h s c r R

is a graded polynomial ring generated by global holomorphic functions

u_{i}

of dimension

D e l t a_{i}

. The coarse-grained classification of the CSG consists in listing the (finitely many) dimension

k

-tuples

D e l t a_{1}, D e l t a_{2}, c d o t s, D e l t a_{k}

which are realized as Coulomb branch dimensions of some rank-

k

CSG: this is the problem we address in this paper. Our sheaf-theoretical analysis leads to an Universal Dimension Formula for the possible

D e l t a_{1}, c d o t s, D e l t a_{k}

's. For Lagrangian SCFTs the Universal Formula reduces to the fundamental theorem of Springer Theory. The number

of dimensions allowed in rank

k

is given by a certain sum of the Erd"os-Bateman Number-Theoretic function (sequence A070243 in OEIS) so that for large

k

�oldsymbol{N}(k)=frac{2,zeta(2),zeta(3)}{zeta(6)},k^2+o(k^2).

In the special case

k = 2

our dimension formula reproduces a recent result by Argyres et al. Class Field Theory implies a subtlety: certain dimension

k

-tuples

D e l t a_{1}, c d o t s, D e l t a_{k}

are consistent only if supplemented by additional selection rules on the electro-magnetic charges, that is, for a SCFT with these Coulomb dimensions not all charges/fluxes consistent with Dirac quantization are permitted. We illustrate the various aspects with several examples and perform a number of explicit checks. We include tables of dimensions for the first few

k

's.

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