4d $\mathcal{N}$=2 theories with disconnected gauge groups

TL;DR

This paper constructs new 4d rank-1 $ =2$ SCFTs by gauging discrete symmetries, revealing theories with exceptional flavor groups, enlarged supersymmetry, and violations of known charge relations, thus expanding the landscape of known SCFTs.

Contribution

It introduces a systematic method for constructing novel 4d $ =2$ SCFTs via discrete gauging, including theories with exceptional flavor groups and enhanced supersymmetry, filling gaps in the classification.

Findings

Constructed theories with $F_4$ and $G_2$ flavor groups.

Realized all but one known rank-1 Seiberg-Witten geometries.

Discovered theories with enlarged $ =3$ supersymmetry and violations of the Shapere-Tachikawa relation.

Abstract

In this paper we present a beautifully consistent web of evidence for the existence of interacting 4d rank-1 $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs obtained from gauging discrete subgroups of global symmetries of other existing 4d rank-1 $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs. The global symmetries that can be gauged involve a non-trivial combination of discrete subgroups of the $U(1)_R$, low-energy EM duality group $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$, and the outer automorphism group of the flavor symmetry algebra, Out($F$). The theories that we construct are remarkable in many ways: (i) two of them have exceptional $F_4$ and $G_2$ flavor groups; (ii) they substantially complete the picture of the landscape of rank-1 $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs as they realize all but one of the remaining consistent rank-1 Seiberg-Witten geometries that we previously constructed but were not associated to known SCFTs; and (iii) some of them have enlarged $\mathcal{N}=3$ SUSY, and have not been previously constructed. They are also examples of SCFTs which violate the Shapere-Tachikawa relation between the conformal central charges and the scaling dimension of the Coulomb branch vev. We propose a modification of the formulas computing these central charges from the topologically twisted Coulomb branch partition function which correctly compute them for discretely gauged theories.