Tinkertoys for the Twisted Theory
Jan 2, 2015
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We study superconformal field theories that arise as the compactification of the six-dimensional theory of type on a punctured Riemann surface in the presence of outer-automorphism twists. We explicitly carry out the classification of these theories in terms of three-punctured spheres and cylinders, and provide tables of properties of the -twisted punctures. An expression is given for the superconformal index of a fixture with twisted punctures of type , which we use to check our identifications. Several of our fixtures have Higgs branches which are isomorphic to instanton moduli spaces, and we find that S-dualities involving these fixtures imply interesting isomorphisms between hyperKähler quotients of these spaces. Additionally, we find families of fixtures for which the Sommers-Achar group, which was previously a Coulomb branch concept, acts non-trivially on the Higgs branch operators.Note:
- 52 pages, 56 figures
- instanton: moduli space
- field theory: conformal
- dimension: 6
- twist
- compactification
- Riemann surface
- S-duality
- Coulomb
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