Pathway to decay and fission of orthosymplectic quiver theories
We present an algorithm to extract the Coulomb branch Hasse diagram of orthosymplectic three-dimensional (3D) <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><a:mi mathvariant="script">N</a:mi><a:mo>=</a:mo><a:mn>4</a:mn></a:math> quiver gauge theories. The algorithm systematically predicts all descendant theories arising from Coulomb branch Higgsing, thereby detailing the stratification of the symplectic singularity defined by the initial Coulomb branch. Leveraging the Lie algebra isomorphism <d:math xmlns:d="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><d:mrow><d:mi mathvariant="fraktur">su</d:mi><d:mo stretchy="false">(</d:mo><d:mn>4</d:mn><d:mo stretchy="false">)</d:mo><d:mo>≅</d:mo><d:mi mathvariant="fraktur">so</d:mi><d:mo stretchy="false">(</d:mo><d:mn>6</d:mn><d:mo stretchy="false">)</d:mo></d:mrow></d:math>, we validate our algorithm via the 3D mirror of the 4D theories of class <l:math xmlns:l="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><l:mi mathvariant="script">S</l:mi></l:math> of such type. This comparison involves moduli spaces that admit both orthosymplectic and unitary quiver realizations, the latter being well understood via standard techniques such as decay and fission. Higgsing on the Coulomb branch of the 3D mirror or the magnetic quiver translates to Higgs branch renormalization group flows of the corresponding higher-dimensional superconformal field theories. Thus, we benchmark our method via Higgsing 6D <o:math xmlns:o="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><o:mi mathvariant="script">N</o:mi><o:mo>=</o:mo><o:mo stretchy="false">(</o:mo><o:mn>1</o:mn><o:mo>,</o:mo><o:mn>0</o:mn><o:mo stretchy="false">)</o:mo></o:math> D-type orbi-instanton theories, predicting novel Higgsing patterns involving products of interacting fixed points, and class <t:math xmlns:t="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><t:mi mathvariant="script">S</t:mi></t:math> theories of type <w:math xmlns:w="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><w:mi mathvariant="fraktur">so</w:mi><w:mo stretchy="false">(</w:mo><w:mn>2</w:mn><w:mi>N</w:mi><w:mo stretchy="false">)</w:mo></w:math>, demonstrating Higgsing to products of theories of types specified by Levi subalgebras of <bb:math xmlns:bb="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><bb:mi mathvariant="fraktur">so</bb:mi><bb:mo stretchy="false">(</bb:mo><bb:mn>2</bb:mn><bb:mi>N</bb:mi><bb:mo stretchy="false">)</bb:mo></bb:math>.
Authors
- Marcus Sperling (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4631-1392)
- Zhenghao Zhong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5159-1013)
- Lorenzo Mansi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1044-0869)
- Karl J. Friston
Institutions
- University of Vienna (AT)
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (DE)
- University of Oxford (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
- Published
- 2025-06-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/flb9-6nm3
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Algebraic structures and combinatorial models
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.09