Current Algebra Levels in the E8 Theory
Abstract
The class-S theories of type E8 were analyzed in Chacaltana:2018vhp. The basic building blocks consisted of 49,836 isolated SCFTs (three-punctured spheres). In 244 cases, there were undetermined levels for the flavour symmetry current algebra. Here, we rectify that omission. Using S-duality and nilpotent Higgsing we compute the levels of 235 of the 244. There remain 9 three-punctured spheres with unknown levels. Along the way, we provide a detailed discussion of the Drinfeld-Sokolov reduction of the VOA, which captures various features of the Higgs branch RG flows arising from giving a VEV to a nilpotent moment map.
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