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Higgsless Lagrangian 4d SCFTs are sparse; two of them yield new logarithmic VOAs that are C2-cofinite but non-rational.

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arxiv 2607.08813 v1 pith:XGPPUGW5 submitted 2026-07-09 hep-th math-phmath.MPmath.QA

Higgsless Lagrangian SCFTs and Strongly Finite VOAs

Siqi Chen , Anirudh Deb , Leonardo Rastelli This is my paper
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keywords vertex operator algebrasstrongly finite VOAslogarithmic VOAsSCFT/VOA correspondenceHiggsless SCFTsC2-cofinitenessHall-Littlewood indexmodular pseudocharacters
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The paper asks which four-dimensional N=2 Lagrangian superconformal theories have no Higgs branch of vacua, because the SCFT/VOA correspondence predicts that such theories produce vertex operator algebras that are strongly finite yet non-rational (logarithmic). Starting from the full Bhardwaj-Tachikawa list of conformal Lagrangians, the authors impose absence of continuous flavor symmetry and then systematically construct gauge-invariant operators that survive F-terms inside subquivers; any theory that admits such an operator is discarded. The survivors form a short list: free vector multiplets and their discrete gaugings, one infinite family of trivalent SO/USp quivers, and three sporadic theories. For two of the sporadics they bootstrap the associated VOAs by writing strong generators, fixing OPEs via Jacobi identities that hold only after null relations are imposed, prove the generators are nilpotent so the associated variety is a point (C2-cofiniteness), and exhibit closed-form vacuum characters whose modular S-transforms contain log-q pseudocharacters, establishing non-rationality. The result both enlarges the sparse catalogue of logarithmic VOAs and supplies concrete new examples whose modular data can be studied in detail.

Core claim

The complete list of candidate interacting Higgsless Lagrangian SCFTs consists of (i) USp(4) with half-hypers in the 16, (ii) SU(3)×SU(2) with half-hypers in 8×2, (iii) the infinite trivalent USp(m) family for m in 4Z>0, and (iv) the 1/2asym3–USp(8)–SO(6) quiver; the VOAs of (i) and (ii) are C2-cofinite with logarithmic pseudocharacters in the modular orbit of the vacuum character.

What carries the argument

The subquiver lemma: a gauge-invariant operator built from half-hypermultiplets of a subquiver that is non-zero modulo the subquiver F-terms remains non-zero in the full theory and, under the geometrization conjecture, is a genuine Higgs-branch generator; this lets whole infinite families be ruled out by inspecting a single recurring pattern.

Load-bearing premise

The claim that conformal theories have no nilpotent elements in their Higgs chiral ring is used both to turn a single non-vanishing operator into proof of a non-trivial Higgs branch and to read a truncated Hall-Littlewood index as evidence of Higgslessness.

What would settle it

Compute the full Higgs Hilbert series (or an explicit basis of the F-term quotient ring) for either of the two bootstrapped sporadic theories and find a non-constant generator; or exhibit a modular transformation of their vacuum characters that closes without log-q terms.

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If this is right

  • Two previously unknown strongly finite non-rational VOAs, complete with closed-form characters, S and T matrices, and pseudocharacters, become available for representation-category study.
  • Any complete classification of C2-cofinite logarithmic VOAs arising from 4d N=2 SCFTs must at least include the free-vector discrete gaugings, the two sporadic VOAs constructed here, and (conjecturally) the infinite SO/USp family.
  • The modular data of the new VOAs can be used to test proposed Verlinde-type formulae and the structure of log-modular tensor categories.
  • Higgslessness of a Lagrangian SCFT is a practical necessary condition that can be checked by Hilbert-series or HL-index computations before attempting a full VOA bootstrap.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The sparseness of the list suggests that Lagrangian Higgsless theories may be exceptional rather than generic; a unifying geometric or string-theoretic construction of the SO/USp family would explain why the set is so thin.
  • The paper notes that known rational Higgsless SCFTs (Argyres-Douglas) are isolated while the Lagrangian ones have conformal manifolds; this invites a sharp test of whether non-rationality of the VOA is correlated with the existence of exactly marginal couplings.
  • Because the gauginos supply the symplectic-fermion-like degrees of freedom that produce logarithms, any non-Lagrangian Higgsless theory whose VOA is still logarithmic would require a different source of log modules.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper classifies candidate Higgsless Lagrangian 4d N=2 SCFTs within the Bhardwaj–Tachikawa list, concluding that the interacting examples consist of two sporadic theories (USp(4) with half-hypers in the 16; SU(3)×SU(2) with half-hypers in 8×2), one infinite trivalent USp(m) family for m∈4Z>0, and the ½asym3–USp(8)–SO(6) quiver. Free vectors and their discrete gaugings are recovered as the free examples. For the two sporadic theories the authors compute I_Higgs=1, truncate the Hall–Littlewood indices, bootstrap the associated VOAs by OPE ansatz and Jacobi identities (using OPEdefs), exhibit enough null states to prove nilpotency of all strong generators in R_V (hence C2-cofiniteness), and give closed-form vacuum characters whose S-transforms contain logarithmic pseudocharacters, establishing non-rationality. The remaining candidates are left for future VOA constructions, with partial operator-enumeration and HL-truncation evidence.

Significance. Strongly finite non-rational VOAs remain scarce; the two fully constructed algebras are concrete new examples with closed-form characters, explicit S/T matrices, and verified C2-cofiniteness. The classification result is surprising in its sparseness and supplies a short, well-defined list of Lagrangian parents for further logarithmic VOAs. The bootstrap is machine-assisted and checked against independently computed Schur indices; modular non-rationality follows from explicit S-transforms rather than asymptotics alone. These are genuine additions to both the SCFT/VOA dictionary and the mathematical stock of logarithmic VOAs.

major comments (2)
  1. The classification of candidates (Result of §3.1, Table 2) relies on the Higgs-branch geometrization conjecture (C[MH]=RH with no nilpotents) both in the subquiver lemma (§3.3) and in the interpretation of truncated HL indices (§2.5). If nilpotents are allowed, some discarded quivers could still be Higgsless and the subquiver lemma would no longer guarantee a genuine Higgs-branch operator. The paper already labels the infinite family and the third sporadic as candidates with partial evidence; this dependence should be stated more prominently in the Result statement and in the abstract so that the logical status of the full list is unambiguous.
  2. For the infinite family (iii) and the third sporadic (iv), Higgslessness rests on incomplete operator enumeration plus HL truncation for the lowest ranks only (§3.5.3, Eqs. (3.48)–(3.49) and (3.22)). While the authors correctly mark the evidence as non-rigorous, the claim that these are the only remaining candidates would be strengthened by either a complete vanishing argument for a few more ranks or an explicit statement that the list is exhaustive only under the additional assumption that no unexpected higher-dimension singlets appear.
minor comments (4)
  1. In §4.2.1–4.2.2 the schematic forms of the strong generators (Tables 4 and 7) suppress all gauge indices; a short footnote or appendix line indicating the precise contractions would aid reproducibility.
  2. Appendix F lists the null states used for Jacobi identities but does not record the OPEdefs session or the precise order at which the identities were checked; a brief computational note would be useful.
  3. The diagrammatic notation of §3.4 is clear once introduced, but a single worked example of an F-term application (beyond Eq. (3.7)) would help readers less familiar with SO/USp quivers.
  4. Typographical: “Higgslessness” is occasionally hyphenated inconsistently; “pseudocharacters” versus “pseudo-characters” likewise.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: candidate filtering uses an external conjecture, but the two novel VOAs are constructed and verified independently of it.

full rationale

The paper's load-bearing claims for the two sporadic VOAs (USp(4)+16 and SU(3)×SU(2)+8×2) rest on three independent computations that do not reduce to their inputs: (1) direct Macaulay2 evaluation of the Higgs Hilbert series yielding I_Higgs=1 (Secs. 4.2.1–4.2.2), (2) bootstrap of OPEs by imposing Jacobi identities on an ansatz for strong generators, followed by explicit nilpotency of all generators in R_V (Tables 5 and 8), and (3) closed-form vacuum characters whose S-transforms produce logarithmic pseudocharacters (Eqs. 4.27–4.28, 4.42–4.43). These steps match independently computed Schur/Macdonald/HL indices and never invoke the Higgs-branch geometrization conjecture. The Bhardwaj–Tachikawa classification and the SCFT/VOA correspondence are taken as established external input; self-citations are to prior technical tools (indices, free-field realisations, modular asymptotics) that do not force the classification or the VOA properties. The infinite family and third sporadic are carefully labelled candidates whose evidence is partial. No fitted parameter is renamed a prediction, no uniqueness theorem is imported to forbid alternatives, and no ansatz is smuggled that collapses the result to its premises. The derivation is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 4 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on the established SCFT/VOA dictionary, the completeness of the Bhardwaj-Tachikawa list of conformal Lagrangian theories, and the Higgs-branch geometrization conjecture that converts ring-theoretic statements into geometric ones. No free parameters are fitted; the two new VOAs are defined by bootstrap rather than by new postulated entities.

axioms (4)
  • domain assumption Higgs branch geometrization conjecture: for conformal N=2 theories the Higgs chiral ring RH contains no nilpotents and equals the coordinate ring of the Higgs branch.
    Invoked throughout Sections 2.2, 2.5 and 3 to equate RH=C with Higgslessness and to guarantee that a non-vanishing gauge-invariant operator is a genuine Higgs generator.
  • domain assumption Bhardwaj-Tachikawa classification exhausts all 4d N=2 conformal Lagrangian gauge theories.
    The entire case-by-case analysis of Section 3 starts from this list; any missing theory would invalidate completeness of the Higgsless list.
  • domain assumption SCFT/VOA correspondence: the Schur sector of a 4d N=2 SCFT yields a VOA whose associated variety is the Higgs branch (Higgs branch conjecture).
    Used to motivate the search and to interpret C2-cofiniteness of the constructed VOAs as confirmation of the conjecture for the two sporadic cases.
  • standard math Standard facts of vertex-algebra theory (C2 algebra, associated variety, modular linear differential equations, pseudocharacters).
    Background used without proof in Sections 2 and 4.

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Vertex operator algebras (VOAs) are well studied in both mathematics and physics. The best understood class is that of strongly rational VOAs, whose representation category is maximally well behaved: indeed, it is a modular tensor category. At the next level of complexity are strongly finite but non-rational VOAs. Their representation category is not semisimple (it is ``logarithmic''), but maintains nice structural properties. Only a few families of examples in this class are known, a fact that may have hindered the development of a comprehensive mathematical theory. The SCFT/VOA correspondence provides a natural way to generate more examples: strongly finite but non-rational VOAs are expected to arise from four-dimensional ${\cal N}=2$ Lagrangian superconformal field theories (SCFTs) that do not admit a Higgs branch moduli space of vacua. We tackle the combinatorial task of classifying all such ``Higgsless'' Lagrangian SCFTs. To our surprise, this set turns out to be rather sparse. Free vector multiplets and their discrete gaugings are immediate examples. The interacting Higgsless theories comprise one infinite sequence of SO/USp quivers and three sporadic examples. We construct and study the novel VOAs associated to two of the sporadic examples, and confirm that they are indeed strongly finite and logarithmic.

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