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Superstrip Algebras and Nonperturbative Spectra in Fermionic Theories
Jin Chen, Zhihao Duan, Qiang Jia +1
This is an extended version of arXiv:2511.22129. We develop a general construction of the superstrip algebra , the fermionic counterpart of…
Web of 4D Dualities, Supersymmetric Partition functions and SymTFT
Zhihao Duan, Qiang Jia, Sungjay Lee
We study one-form center symmetries in four-dimensional gauge theories using the symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT). In this context, the associated TFT in t…
The descendants of the 3d-index
Zhihao Duan, Stavros Garoufalidis, Jie Gu
In the study of 3d-3d correspondence occurs a natural -Weyl algebra associated to an ideal triangulation of a 3-manifold with torus boundary components, and a module of it. We s…
On Classification of Fermionic Rational Conformal Field Theories
Zhihao Duan, Kimyeong Lee, Sungjay Lee +1
We systematically study how the integrality of the conformal characters shapes the space of fermionic rational conformal field theories in two dimensions. The integrality suggests…
Resurgence in complex Chern-Simons theory at generic levels
Zhihao Duan, Jie Gu
In this note we study the resurgent structure of Chern-Simons state integral models on knot complements wit…
Hecke Relations, Cosets and the Classification of 2d RCFTs
Zhihao Duan, Kimyeong Lee, Kaiwen Sun
We systemically study the Hecke relations and the coset relations among 2d rational conformal field theories (RCFTs) with up to seven characters. We propose that the charact…
Can the energy bound imply supersymmetry?
Jin-Beom Bae, Zhihao Duan, Sungjay Lee
We utilize the integrality conjecture to show that the torus partition function of a fermionic rational conformal theory in the Ramond-Ramond sector becomes a constant when the bou…
Bootstrapping Fermionic Rational CFTs with Three Characters
Jin-Beom Bae, Zhihao Duan, Kimyeong Lee +2
Recently, the modular linear differential equation (MLDE) for level-two congruence subgroups and of was developed and used to cla…
Twisted 6d SCFTs on a Circle
Zhihao Duan, Kimyeong Lee, June Nahmgoong +1
We study twisted circle compactification of 6d SCFTs to 5d supersymmetric gauge theories with non-simply-laced gauge groups. We provide two complementary…
Weyl invariant Jacobi forms along Higgsing trees
Zhihao Duan, David Jaramillo Duque, Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor
Using topological string techniques, we compute BPS counting functions of 5d gauge theories which descend from 6d superconformal field theories upon circle compactification. Such t…
5D BPS Quivers and KK Towers
Zhihao Duan, Dongwook Ghim, Piljin Yi
We explore BPS quivers for D=5 theories, compactified on a circle and geometrically engineered over local Calabi-Yau 3-folds, for which many of known machineries leading to (refine…
Bootstrapping ADE M-strings
Zhihao Duan, June Nahmgoong
We study elliptic genera of ADE-type M-strings in 6d (2,0) SCFTs from their modularity and explore the relation to topological string partition functions. We find a novel kinematic…
Fermionic Rational Conformal Field Theories and Modular Linear Differential Equations
Jin-Beom Bae, Zhihao Duan, Kimyeong Lee +2
We define Modular Linear Differential Equations (MLDE) for the level-two congruence subgroups , and of . Each subgroup corres…
Computing the elliptic genus of higher rank E-strings from genus 0 GW invariants
Zhihao Duan, Jie Gu, Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor
We show that the elliptic genus of the higher rank E-strings can be computed based solely on the genus 0 Gromov-Witten invariants of the corresponding elliptic geometry. To set up…
Instantons in the Hofstadter butterfly: difference equation, resurgence and quantum mirror curves
Zhihao Duan, Jie Gu, Yasuyuki Hatsuda +1
We study the Harper-Hofstadter Hamiltonian and its corresponding non-perturbative butterfly spectrum. The problem is algebraically solvable whenever the magnetic flux is a rational…
Electroweak Physics for Color Superconductivity
R. Casalbuoni, Z. Duan, F. Sannino
We construct the effective theories describing the electroweak interactions for the low energy excitations associated with the color superconductive phases of QCD at high matter de…
Low Energy Theory for 2 flavors at High Density QCD
R. Casalbuoni, Z. Duan, F. Sannino
We construct the effective Lagrangian describing the low energy excitations for Quantum Chromodynamics with two flavors at high density. The non-linear realization framework is emp…
Phases of Chiral Gauge Theories
T. Appelquist, Z. Duan, F. Sannino
We discuss the behavior of two non-supersymmetric chiral SU(N) gauge theories, involving fermions in the symmetric and antisymmetric two-index tensor representations respectively.…
Enhanced Global Symmetry Constraints on epsilon Terms
Z. Duan, P. S. Rodrigues da Silva, F. Sannino
Recently it has been proposed that the physical spectrum of a vector-like gauge field theory may exhibit an enhanced global symmetry near a chiral/conformal phase transition. The n…