2020/01/31 by Fabio Apruzzi, Simone Giacomelli, Sakura Schafer-Nameki +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Computer science #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.101.106008
published as Phys. Rev. D 101, 106008 (2020) · 18 pages, v2: references added, v3: published version
openalex created_date 2020/01/10 · openalex publication_date 2020/05/08 · arxiv created 2020/08/06 · arxiv updated 2020/08/07 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The authors construct a string-theoretic, geometric classification of four-dimensional, N=2 superconformal theories, which confirms quantum field theory results obtained for the smallest non-abelian gauge groups, but also provides a way to classify theories with higher-rank gauge groups. After more than a quarter-century of the groundbreaking Seibwerg-Witten papers on the topic and many specific developments, this could finally lead to a complete classification of these theories.