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most citedHiggs Branches of rank-0 5d theories from M-theory on and singularities

15 citations · 45 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

hep-th2026

Discrete Gauging of 5d SCFTs

Guillermo Arias-Tamargo, Mario De Marco, Craig Lawrie +2

We study the gauging of discrete symmetries of the 5d rank-one SCFTs that fix the Coulomb branch coordinate but act nontrivially on the Higgs branch chiral ring. Using genera…

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 pur…

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-th2025

Non-toric 5d SCFTs from Reid's Pagoda

Andrés Collinucci, Fabrizio Del Monte, Mario De Marco +2

We construct new families of non-toric 5d SCFTs via abelian orbifolds of the Reid Pagoda, including a surprising infinite family of rank-1 theories, that evade all known classifica…

hep-th2023★ 4 cited

Disconnected gauge groups in the infrared

Guillermo Arias-Tamargo, Mario De Marco

Gauging a discrete 0-form symmetry of a QFT is a procedure that changes the global form of the gauge group but not its perturbative dynamics. In this work, we study the Seiberg-Wit…

hep-th2023

5d Conformal Matter

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

Six-dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs) have an atomic classification in terms of elementary building blocks, conformal systems that generalize matter and can be fuse…

hep-th2022★ 14 cited

5d Higgs Branches from M-theory on quasi-homogeneous cDV threefold singularities

Mario De Marco, Andrea Sangiovanni, Roberto Valandro

We classify rank zero 5d SCFTs geometrically engineered from M-theory on quasi-homogeneous compound Du Val isolated threefold singularities. For all such theories, we characterize…

hep-th2022★ 12 cited

Flops of any length, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, and 5d Higgs Branches

Andrés Collinucci, Mario De Marco, Andrea Sangiovanni +1

The conifold is a basic example of a noncompact Calabi-Yau threefold that admits a simple flop, and in M-theory, gives rise to a 5d hypermultiplet at low energies, realized by an M…

hep-th2021★ 15 cited

Higgs Branches of rank-0 5d theories from M-theory on and singularities

Mario De Marco, Andrea Sangiovanni

We study the dynamics of M-theory on isolated non-toric Calabi-Yau threefold singularities of type and , engineering five-dimensional rank-zero SCFTs. Our ap…