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More Arnold’s \( \mathcal{N} = 2 \) superconformal gauge theories

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We study the \( \mathcal{N} = 2 \) gauge theories obtained by engineering the Type IIB superstring on the quasi-homogeneous elements of Arnold’s list of bimodal singularities. All these theories have finite BPS chambers and we describe, along the lines of arXiv:1107.5747, the algebraically obvious ones.

Our results leads to the prediction of 11 new periodic Y -systems, providing additional evidence for the correspondence in between thermodinamical Bethe ansatz periodic Y -systems and \( \mathcal{N} = 2 \) superconformal theories with a finite BPS chamber whose chiral primaries have dimensions of the form N/ℓ.

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Del Zotto, M. More Arnold’s \( \mathcal{N} = 2 \) superconformal gauge theories. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 115 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2011)115

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