Argyres-Douglas avatars of Coulomb branch physics

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2023)052MaRDI QIDQ6101196zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chinmaya Bhargava, Matthew Buican, Hongliang Jiang

Publication date 31 May 2023

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/2211.07757

zbMATH Keywords

conformal and W symmetryextended supersymmetrysupersymmetric gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

Abstract: We study ultraviolet (UV) incarnations of deep infrared (IR) physics on the Coulomb branch of the simplest interacting 4D $mathcalN=2$ superconformal field theory: the minimal Argyres-Douglas (MAD) theory. One of the most basic properties of the Coulomb branch is an emergent infinite-dimensional higher-spin symmetry. While the MAD theory is interacting and therefore does not have such a symmetry, we find UV operators that encode the emergent complex higher-spin symmetry on the Coulomb branch. Moreover, we show that cousins of these UV operators give rise to cousins of the IR higher-spin multiplets. In terms of superconformal representation theory, we are led to a conjecture on the exact spectrum of $$ multiplets in the MAD theory for all $R$, $r$, $j$, and $$ satisfying $$, thereby making progress towards a full characterization of the protected spectrum. Along the way, we give a geometrical interpretation of these operators and include them in an extension of the Coulomb branch / $mathcalN=2$ chiral operator correspondence.

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