Top down approach to 6D SCFTs

JJ Heckman, T Rudelius - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Six-dimensional (6D) superconformal field theories (SCFTs) occupy a central place
in the study of quantum field theories encountered in high energy theory. This article reviews …

Emergent strings from infinite distance limits

SJ Lee, W Lerche, T Weigand - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract As a refinement of the Swampland Distance Conjecture, we propose that a
quantum gravitational theory in an infinite distance limit of its moduli space either …

Tensionless strings and the weak gravity conjecture

SJ Lee, W Lerche, T Weigand - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 - Springer
A bstract We test various conjectures about quantum gravity for six-dimensional string
compactifications in the framework of F-theory. Starting with a gauge theory coupled to …

Atomic classification of 6D SCFTs

JJ Heckman, DR Morrison, T Rudelius… - Fortschritte der …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We use F‐theory to classify possibly all six‐dimensional superconformal field theories
(SCFTs). This involves a two step process: We first classify all possible tensor branches …

[HTML][HTML] A stringy test of the scalar weak gravity conjecture

SJ Lee, W Lerche, T Weigand - Nuclear Physics B, 2019 - Elsevier
We prove a version of the Weak Gravity Conjecture for 6d F-theory or heterotic string
compactifications with 8 supercharges. This sharpens our previous analysis by including …

5d SCFTs from decoupling and gluing

F Apruzzi, S Schäfer-Nameki, YN Wang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 - Springer
A bstract We systematically analyse 5d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) obtained by
dimensional reduction from 6d\(\mathcal {N}\)=(1, 0) SCFTs. Such theories have a …

Modular fluxes, elliptic genera, and weak gravity conjectures in four dimensions

SJ Lee, W Lerche, T Weigand - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019 - Springer
A bstract We analyse the Weak Gravity Conjecture for chiral four-dimensional F-theory
compactifications with N= 1 supersymmetry. Extending our previous work on nearly …

The fate of discrete 1-form symmetries in 6d

F Apruzzi, M Dierigl, L Lin - SciPost Physics, 2022 - scipost.org
Recently introduced generalized global symmetries have been useful in order to understand
non-perturbative aspects of quantum field theories in four and lower dimensions. In this …

Supersymmetric localization in two dimensions

F Benini, B Le Floch - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This is an introductory review to localization techniques in supersymmetric two-dimensional
gauge theories. In particular, we describe how to construct Lagrangians of $\newcommand …

6d theories on S 1 /T 2 and class S theories: part II

K Ohmori, H Shimizu, Y Tachikawa… - Journal of High Energy …, 2015 - Springer
A bstract We study the T 2 compactification of a class of 6d\(\mathcal {N}=\left (1,\; 0\right)\)
theories that is Higgsable to\(\mathcal {N}=\left (2,\; 0\right)\) theories. We show that the …