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2D CFT blocks for the 4D class $\mathcal{S}_k$ theories

March 2, 2017

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Vladimir Mitev, Elli Pomoni
High Energy Physics - Theory

This is the first in a series of papers on the search for the 2D CFT description of a large class of 4D $\mathcal{N} = 1$ gauge theories. Here, we identify the 2D CFT symmetry algebra and its representations, namely the conformal blocks of the Virasoro/W-algebra, that underlie the 2D theory and reproduce the Seiberg-Witten curves of the $\mathcal{N} = 1$ gauge theories. We find that the blocks corresponding to the SU(N) $\mathcal{S}_k$ gauge theories involve fields in certain non-unitary representations of the $W_{kN}$ algebra. These conformal blocks give a prediction for the instanton partition functions of the 4D $\mathcal{N} = 1$ SCFTs of class $\mathcal{S}_k$.

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