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Landscape of Higgs vacua in 5d
Amihay Hanany, Elias Van den Driessche
Strongly coupled 5d gauge theories have a Higgs branch of their moduli space of vacua, identified by 1/2-BPS operators and their algebraic relations. For $SU(N_c)_k…
Spin(N) Magnetic Quivers
Mohammad Akhond, Sam Bennett, Amihay Hanany
This work introduces new magnetic quivers for Spin(N) gauge theories with hypermultiplets in spinor representations at both finite and infinite couplin…
New symplectic singularities from gauge theories
Amihay Hanany, Guhesh Kumaran, Deshuo Liu +1
Families of gauge theories with eight supercharges are found to have a Higgs branch which is an isolated symplectic singularity. These are, in…
A Tale of Two Orbits: Non-Simply Laced Mirror
Amihay Hanany, Deshuo Liu
A three-dimensional gauge theory is constructed whose Higgs branch realizes the affine closure of the cotangent bundle of the minimal nilpotent orbit of $\mathfrak{…
5d Higgs branch and instanton magnetization
Amihay Hanany, Alessandro Tomasiello, Elias Van den Driessche
Higgs branches of 5d theories with flavours, whether at weak or strong coupling, are described by a pair of instantons transforming as pure spinors of . The…
Quiver Maps, Nilpotent Orbits and Special Pieces of Nilcones
Sam Bennett, Amihay Hanany, Rudolph Kalveks
This paper explores 3d quiver gauge theories whose moduli spaces represent nilpotent orbits, Słodowy slices or, more generally, Słodowy intersections, which span th…
Quotient Quiver Subtraction -- Classical Groups
Sam Bennett, Amihay Hanany, Guhesh Kumaran
Quotient quiver subtraction is a simple combinatorial prescription for gauging Coulomb branch isometry subgroups of 3d quiver gauge theories. This paper uses Type I…
Symmetry Mitosis and Hasse Diagram Diamonds: A Note on Brane Configurations with Planes
Sam Bennett, Amihay Hanany, Guhesh Kumaran +1
This letter considers 3d (unitary-)orthosymplectic quiver gauge theories originating from Type IIA and Type IIB brane systems with planes. Such theo…
Orthosymplectic Quotient Quiver Subtraction II: Framed Quivers
Sam Bennett, Amihay Hanany, Guhesh Kumaran
The technique of is introduced for framed orthosymplectic quivers. This involves subtracting an $\textit{orthosymplectic quot…
3d Mirrors and Phase Diagrams of Abelian Gauge Theories
Julius F. Grimminger, Amihay Hanany, Deshuo Liu
This paper presents new developments in the study of 3d mirror symmetry and the phase structure of Abelian gauge theories. Previous works identified 3d mirrors for a specific class…
/ Gauge Groups, Quivers and Planes
Sam Bennett, Amihay Hanany
D3-/D5-/NS5-brane systems with orientifold planes realise 3d gauge theories with orthogonal and symplectic gauge groups on the D3-brane worldvolume. Such setup…
On brane systems with O planes -- 5d and 6d SCFTs
Mohammad Akhond, Guillermo Arias-Tamargo, Federico Carta +2
We study Higgs branches of field theories with 8 supercharges in 5 and 6 dimensions, focusing on theories realised on 5-brane webs in Type IIB with an O plane, or a D6-D8-NS5…
Orthosymplectic Quotient Quiver Subtraction
Sam Bennett, Amihay Hanany, Guhesh Kumaran
The technique of orthosymplectic quotient quiver subtraction is introduced. This involves subtraction of an orthosymplectic quotient quiver from a orthosymplecti…
Quiver Subtraction on the Higgs Branch
Sam Bennett, Amihay Hanany, Guhesh Kumaran +3
This paper classifies all Higgs branch Higgsing patterns for simply-laced unitary quiver gauge theories with eight supercharges (including multiple loops) and introduces a Higgs br…
Complex Symplectic Contractions and 3d Mirrors
Andrew Dancer, Julius F. Grimminger, Johan Martens +1
We propose magnetic quivers for the complex-symplectic contraction spaces, which are related to implosions and have a natural interpretation in terms of the Moore-Tachikawa categor…
Actions on the quiver -- Discrete quotients on the Coulomb branch
Amihay Hanany, Guhesh Kumaran, Chunhao Li +2
This paper introduces two operations in quiver gauge theories. The first operation takes a quiver with a permutation symmetry and gives a quiver with adjoint loops. The corre…
Quotient Quiver Subtraction
Amihay Hanany, Rudolph Kalveks, Guhesh Kumaran
We develop the diagrammatic technique of quiver subtraction to facilitate the identification and evaluation of the hyper-Kähler quotient (HKQ) of the Coulomb branc…
A Tale of N Cones
Antoine Bourget, Julius F. Grimminger, Amihay Hanany +3
We study particular families of bad 3d quiver gauge theories, whose Higgs branches consist of many cones. We show the role of a novel brane configuration in realizi…
Poisson Brackets for some Coulomb Branches
Kirsty Gledhill, Amihay Hanany
We construct Poisson bracket relations between the operators which generate the chiral ring of the Coulomb branch of certain quiver gauge theories. In the case…
Magnetic quivers and negatively charged branes
Amihay Hanany, Marcus Sperling
The Higgs branches of the world-volume theories for multiple M5 branes on an or -type ALE space are known to host a variety of fascinating properties, such as the small…
The Hasse Diagram of the Moduli Space of Instantons
Antoine Bourget, Julius F. Grimminger, Amihay Hanany +1
Hasse diagrams (or phase diagrams) for moduli spaces of supersymmetric field theories have been intensively studied in recent years, and many tools to compute them have been develo…
Partial Implosions and Quivers
Antoine Bourget, Andrew Dancer, Julius F. Grimminger +2
We propose magnetic quivers for partial implosion spaces. Such partial implosions involve a choice of parabolic subgroup, with the Borel subgroup corresponding to the standard impl…
Higgs Branches of U/SU Quivers via Brane Locking
Antoine Bourget, Julius F. Grimminger, Amihay Hanany +2
We solve a long standing problem on the computation of the Higgs branch of linear quivers with 8 supercharges and with both unitary and special unitary gauge nodes. T…
Coulomb Branch Global Symmetry and Quiver Addition
Kirsty Gledhill, Amihay Hanany
To date, the best effort made to simply determine the Coulomb branch global symmetry of a theory from a quiver is by applying an algorithm based on its balance…