Tinkertoys for the Twisted D-Series
Oscar Chacaltana, Jacques Distler, Anderson Trimm

TL;DR
This paper classifies twisted 4D N=2 superconformal field theories derived from 6D D_N theories on Riemann surfaces, revealing new gauge theory realizations with specific matter content and detailed puncture properties.
Contribution
It provides an explicit classification of twisted SCFTs for D_4, D_5, and D_6 theories, including tables of puncture properties and new gauge theory constructions.
Findings
Classified twisted SCFTs for D_4, D_5, D_6 theories.
Identified gauge theories with matter in various representations.
Provided detailed properties of twisted punctures.
Abstract
We study 4D N=2 superconformal field theories that arise from the compactification of 6D N=(2,0) theories of type D_N on a Riemann surface, in the presence of punctures twisted by a Z_2 outer automorphism. Unlike the untwisted case, the family of SCFTs is in general parametrized, not by M_{g,n}, but by a branched cover thereof. The classification of these SCFTs is carried out explicitly in the case of the D_4 theory, in terms of three-punctured spheres and cylinders, and we provide tables of properties of twisted punctures for the D_5 and D_6 theories. We find realizations of Spin(8) and Spin(7) gauge theories with matter in all combinations of vector and spinor representations with vanishing beta-function, as well as Sp(3) gauge theories with matter in the 3-index traceless antisymmetric representation.
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Taxonomy
TopicsBlack Holes and Theoretical Physics · Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies · Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
