Starting with a gentle approach to the Alday–Gaiotto–Tachikawa (AGT) correspondence
from its 6d origin, these notes provide a wide (albeit shallow) survey of the literature on …

A bstract Starting from 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) realized via F-theory, we
show how reduction on a circle leads to a uniform perspective on the phase structure of the …

Superconformal field theories (SCFTs) occupy a central role in the study of many aspects of
quantum field theory. In this white paper for the Snowmass process we give a brief overview …

We study compactifications of the 6d E‐string theory, the theory of a small E8 instanton, to
four dimensions. In particular we identify N= 1 field theories in four dimensions …

A bstract We study the geometry of 4d\(\mathcal {N}= 1\) SCFT's arising from
compactification of 6d (1, 0) SCFT's on a Riemann surface. We show that the conformal …

A bstract We propose 5d descriptions of 6d\(\mathcal {N}=\left (1,\0\right)\) superconformal
field theories arising from Type IIA brane configurations with an O8−-plane. We T-dualize the …

Compactifying N=(1, 0) theories on a torus, with additional fluxes for global symmetries, we
obtain N= 1 supersymmetric theories in four dimensions. It is shown that for many choices of …

A bstract In this paper we study compactifications of ADE type conformal matter, N M5
branes probing ADE singularity, on torus with flux for global symmetry. We systematically …

We study compactifications on Riemann surfaces with punctures of N=(1, 0) six-dimensional
SCFTs with a one-dimensional tensor branch and no continuous global symmetries. The …

A bstract We analyze the global symmetries and anomalies of 4d\(\mathcal {N}\)= 1 field
theories that arise from a stack of N M5-branes probing a class of flux backgrounds. These …