Search Results - "Del Zotto, Michele"
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Higher form symmetries and M-theory
Published in The journal of high energy physics (01-12-2020)“…A bstract We discuss the geometric origin of discrete higher form symmetries of quantum field theories in terms of defect groups from geometric engineering in…”
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The Characteristic Dimension of Four-Dimensional N = 2 SCFTs
Published in Communications in mathematical physics (01-05-2023)“…In this paper we introduce the characteristic dimension of a four dimensional N = 2 superconformal field theory, which is an extraordinary simple invariant…”
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Universal features of BPS strings in six-dimensional SCFTs
Published in The journal of high energy physics (01-08-2018)“…A bstract In theories with extended supersymmetry the protected observables of UV superconformal fixed points are found in a number of contexts to be encoded…”
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2-Group Symmetries of 6D Little String Theories and T-Duality
Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (2021)“…We determine the 2-group structure constants for all the six-dimensional little string theories (LSTs) geometrically engineered in F-theory without frozen…”
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Half-hypers and quivers
Published in The journal of high energy physics (01-09-2012)“…A bstract We study systematically the BPS spectra of SYM coupled to half - hypermultiplets, the basic example being E 7 SYM coupled to a half-hyper in the 56…”
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On exceptional instanton strings
Published in The journal of high energy physics (01-09-2017)“…A bstract According to a recent classification of 6d (1 , 0) theories within F-theory there are only six “pure” 6d gauge theories which have a UV…”
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Discrete integrable systems, supersymmetric quantum mechanics, and framed BPS states
Published in The journal of high energy physics (01-07-2022)“…A bstract It is possible to understand whether a given BPS spectrum is generated by a relevant deformation of a 4D N = 2 SCFT or of an asymptotically free…”
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On the 6d origin of non-invertible symmetries in 4d
Published in The journal of high energy physics (25-09-2023)“…A bstract It is well-known that six-dimensional superconformal field theories can be exploited to unravel interesting features of lower-dimensional theories…”
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The ALE partition functions of M-strings
Published in The journal of high energy physics (04-04-2024)“…A bstract We compute the equivariant partition function of the six-dimensional M-string SCFTs on a background with the topology of a product of a…”
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Complete graphs, Hilbert series, and the Higgs branch of the 4d N=2(An,Am) SCFTs
Published in Nuclear physics. B (01-05-2015)“…The strongly interacting 4d N=2 SCFTs of type (An,Am) are the simplest examples of models in the (G,G′) class introduced by Cecotti, Neitzke, and Vafa in…”
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Non-invertible symmetries of class S theories
Published in The journal of high energy physics (29-05-2023)“…A bstract We study the non-invertible symmetries of class S theories obtained by compactifying the type a p − 1 6d (2,0) theory on a genus g Riemann surface…”
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Global structures from the infrared
Published in The journal of high energy physics (10-11-2023)“…A bstract Quantum field theories with identical local dynamics can admit different choices of global structure, leading to different partition functions and…”
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Higher form symmetries of Argyres-Douglas theories
Published in The journal of high energy physics (01-10-2020)“…We determine the structure of 1-form symmetries for all 4d N = 2 theories that have a geometric engineering in terms of type IIB string theory on isolated…”
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6D SCFTs and phases of 5D theories
Published in The journal of high energy physics (01-09-2017)“…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…”
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The Higgs branch of heterotic ALE instantons
Published in The journal of high energy physics (2024)“…A bstract We begin a study of the Higgs branch of six-dimensional (1 , 0) little string theories governing the worldvolumes of heterotic ALE instantons. We…”
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Five-dimensional SCFTs and gauge theory phases: an M-theory/type IIA perspective
Published in SciPost physics (01-05-2019)“…We revisit the correspondence between Calabi-Yau (CY) threefold isolated singularities \mathbf{X} and five-dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs),…”
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Back to heterotic strings on ALE spaces. Part I. Instantons, 2-groups and T-duality
Published in The journal of high energy physics (31-01-2023)“…A bstract In this paper we begin revisiting the little string theories (LSTs) which govern the dynamics of the instantonic heterotic E 8 × E 8 five-branes…”
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Mirror symmetry for G 2-manifolds: twisted connected sums and dual tops
Published in The journal of high energy physics (01-05-2017)“…Abstract Recently, at least 50 million of novel examples of compact G 2 holonomy manifolds have been constructed as twisted connected sums of asymptotically…”
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Remarks on geometric engineering, symmetry TFTs and anomalies
Published in The journal of high energy physics (24-07-2024)“…A bstract Geometric engineering is a collection of tools developed to establish dictionaries between local singularities in string theory and (supersymmetric)…”
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Back to heterotic strings on ALE spaces. Part II. Geometry of T-dual little strings
Published in The journal of high energy physics (2024)“…A bstract This work is the second of a series of papers devoted to revisiting the properties of Heterotic string compactifications on ALE spaces. In this…”
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