Simplifying the type A Argyres-Douglas landscape
A bstract A well-established organisational principle for Argyres-Douglas-type ๐ฉ = 2 superconformal field theories in four dimensions is to characterise such theories by the data defining a(n irregular) Hitchin system on โโ 1 . The dictionary between Hitchin system data and various features of the corresponding SCFT has been studied extensively, but the overall structure of the resulting space of SCFTs still appears quite complicated. In this work, we systematically delineate a variety of simplifications that arise within this class of constructions due to several large classes of isomorphisms between SCFTs associated with inequivalent Hitchin system data (and their exactly marginal gaugings). We restrict to the most studied class of theories, namely the type A theories without outer automorphism twists.
Authors
- Matteo Sacchi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0316-3369)
- Christopher Beem (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8820-2835)
- Mario Martone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0803-7898)
- Palash Singh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9300-7970)
- Jake Stedman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3286-1476)
Institutions
- King's College London (GB)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- King's College School (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Published
- 2025-12-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep12(2025)144
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 5.61
Funders
- University of Oxford
- Science and Technology Facilities Council
- Clarendon Fund
- Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford