Lecture notes on generalized symmetries and applications

R Luo, QR Wang, YN Wang - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
In this lecture note, we give a basic introduction to the rapidly develo** concepts of
generalized symmetries, from the perspectives of both high energy physics and condensed …

Brane dynamics and gauge theory

A Giveon, D Kutasov - Reviews of Modern Physics, 1999 - APS
USING STANDARD SYSTE Page 1 Brane dynamics and gauge theory Amit Giveon Racah
Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel David Kutasov EFI and …

Symmetry TFTs from string theory

F Apruzzi, F Bonetti, I García Etxebarria… - … in mathematical physics, 2023 - Springer
We determine the d+ 1 dimensional topological field theory, which encodes the higher-form
symmetries and their't Hooft anomalies for d-dimensional QFTs obtained by compactifying M …

The string landscape, the swampland, and the missing corner

TD Brennan, F Carta, C Vafa - arxiv preprint arxiv:1711.00864, 2017 - arxiv.org
We give a brief overview of the string landscape and techniques used to construct string
compactifications. We then explain how this motivates the notion of the swampland and …

Macroscopic strings as heavy quarks: Large-N gauge theory and anti-de Sitter supergravity

SJ Rey, JT Yee - The European Physical Journal C-Particles and Fields, 2001 - Springer
We study some aspects of Maldacena's large-N correspondence between \calN=4
superconformal gauge theory on the D3-brane and maximal supergravity on AdS _5*S_5 by …

[HTML][HTML] Wall-crossing, Hitchin systems, and the WKB approximation

D Gaiotto, GW Moore, A Neitzke - Advances in Mathematics, 2013 - Elsevier
We consider BPS states in a large class of d= 4, N= 2 field theories, obtained by reducing six-
dimensional (2, 0) superconformal field theories on Riemann surfaces, with defect operators …

Coulomb and Higgs branches from canonical singularities. Part 0

C Closset, S Schäfer-Nameki, YN Wang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract Five-and four-dimensional superconformal field theories with eight supercharges
arise from canonical threefold singularities in M-theory and Type IIB string theory …

5d and 4d SCFTs: canonical singularities, trinions and S-dualities

C Closset, S Giacomelli, S Schäfer-Nameki… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract Canonical threefold singularities in M-theory and Type IIB string theory give rise to
superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in 5d and 4d, respectively. In this paper, we study …

The topological vertex

M Aganagic, A Klemm, M Marino, C Vafa - … in mathematical physics, 2005 - Springer
We construct a cubic field theory which provides all genus amplitudes of the topological A-
model for all non-compact toric Calabi-Yau threefolds. The topology of a given Feynman …

Fibers add flavor. Part I. Classification of 5d SCFTs, flavor symmetries and BPS states

F Apruzzi, C Lawrie, L Lin, S Schäfer-Nameki… - Journal of High Energy …, 2019 - Springer
We propose a graph-based approach to 5d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) based on
their realization as M-theory compactifications on singular elliptic Calabi-Yau threefolds …