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We study 4D \( \mathcal{N} \) = 2 superconformal theories that arise from the compactification of 6D \( \mathcal{N} \) = (2, 0) theories of type A 2N −1 on a Riemann surface C, in the presence of punctures twisted by a ℤ2 outer automorphism. We describe how to do a complete classification of these SCFTs in terms of three-punctured spheres and cylinders, which we do explicitly for A 3, and provide tables of properties of twisted defects up through A 9. We find atypical degenerations of Riemann surfaces that do not lead to weakly-coupled gauge groups, but to a gauge coupling pinned at a point in the interior of moduli space.
As applications, we study: i) 6D representations of 4D superconformal quivers in the shape of an affine/non-affine D n Dynkin diagram, ii) S-duality of SU(4) and Sp(2) gauge theories with various combinations of fundamental and antisymmetric matter, and iii) realizations of all rank-one SCFTs predicted by Argyres and Wittig.
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Chacaltana, O., Distler, J. & Tachikawa, Y. Gaiotto duality for the twisted A 2N −1 series. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 75 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2015)075
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