3d SUSY enhancement and non-semisimple TQFTs from four dimensions

TL;DR

This paper explores how specific 4d N=2 SCFTs reduce to 3d theories with supersymmetry enhancement, leading to new non-semisimple TQFTs connected to logarithmic VOAs, expanding the understanding of 3d-4d relations.

Contribution

It introduces new infinite families of 3d N=2 gauge theories with SUSY enhancement and non-semisimple TQFTs derived from 4d Argyres-Douglas theories, generalizing previous results.

Findings

Derivation of 3d N=2 theories with SUSY enhancement to N=4.

Construction of non-semisimple TQFTs related to logarithmic VOAs.

Identification of new families of 3d theories with specific topological twists.

Abstract

It has been recently shown that the celebrated SCFT$_4$/VOA$_2$ correspondence can be bridged via three-dimensional field theories arising from a specific R-symmetry twisted circle reduction. We apply this twisted reduction to the $(A_1,A_{n})$ and $(A_1,D_{n})$ families of 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ Argyres-Douglas SCFTs using their $\mathcal{N}=1$ Agarwal-Maruyoshi-Song Lagrangians. From $(A_1,A_{2n})$ we derive the Gang-Kim-Stubbs family of 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theories with SUSY enhancement to $\mathcal{N}=4$ in the infrared, generalizing a recent derivation made in the special cases $n=1,2$. Topological twists of these theories are known to yield $semisimple$ TQFTs supporting $rational$ VOAs on holomorphic boundaries. From $(A_1,A_{2n-1})$, $(A_1,D_{2n+1})$, and $(A_1,D_{2n})$, we obtain three new infinite families of 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ abelian gauge theories, all with monopole superpotentials, flowing to $\mathcal{N}=4$ SCFTs without Coulomb branch, but with the same non-trivial Higgs branch as the four-dimensional parent. Their topological A-twist yields $non$-$semisimple$ TQFTs related to $logarithmic$ VOAs such as $\widehat{\mathfrak{su}}(2)_{-4/3}$.