Nonabelian Twists of the $D_4$ Theory

Abstract

We study theories of type $D_4$ in class-S, with nonabelian outer-automorphism twists around various cycles of the punctured Riemann surface $C$. We propose an extension of previous formulæ for the superconformal index to cover this case and classify the SCFTs corresponding to fixtures (3-punctured spheres). We then go on to study families of SCFTs corresponding to once-punctured tori and 4-punctured spheres. These exhibit new behaviours, not seen in previous investigations. In particular, the generic theory with 4 punctures on the sphere from non-commuting ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$ twisted sectors has six distinct weakly-coupled descriptions.

32 pages, 39 figures