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20242026
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7 papers

hep-th2026

5d Higgs Branches: Stratifications from Geometry

Mario De Marco, Michele Del Zotto, Julius Grimminger +1

Higgs Branches of 5d SCFTs are hyperkähler cones, symplectic varieties with interesting nested singularities governing the structure of possible Higgs branch RG flows. The main pu…

hep-th2026

5d Trinions and Tetraons

Mario De Marco, Michele Del Zotto, Michele Graffeo +1

Recently, an atomic classification scheme of 5d SCFTs has been proposed, relying on the identification of indecomposable building blocks that can be fused together to produce large…

hep-th2026

From Quivers to Geometry: 5d Conformal Matter

Antoine Bourget, Mario De Marco, Michele Del Zotto +2

We show that all 5d balanced (ADE-shaped) special unitary quivers with no Chern-Simons level admit a UV completion which is a 5d conformal matter SCFT. We give explicit local Calab…

hep-th2026

From Multipartite Entanglement to TQFT

Michele Del Zotto, Abhijit Gadde, Pavel Putrov

At long distances, a gapped phase of matter is described by a topological quantum field theory (TQFT). We conjecture a tight and concrete relationship between the genuine -p…

hep-th2025

SymTFT, Protected Gaplessness, and Spontaneous Breaking of Non-invertible Symmetries

Michele Del Zotto, Azeem Hasan, Elias Riedel GÃ¥rding

In recent years we have learned that several four-dimensional field theories can manifest non-invertible zero-form symmetries generalizing the Kramers-Wannier duality defect of the…

hep-th2024

SymTFTs and Non-Invertible Symmetries of 6d (2,0) SCFTs of Type from M-theory

Federico Bonetti, Michele Del Zotto, Ruben Minasian

We revisit 6d (2,0) SCFTs of type and their realization in M-theory, focusing on absolute variants of these theories and on their global finite 0- and 2-form symmetries. We d…