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We study a class of four-dimensional \( \mathcal{N}=1 \) superconformal field theories obtained by wrapping M5-branes on a Riemann surface with punctures. We identify fourdimensional UV descriptions of the SCFTs corresponding to curves with a class of punctures. The quiver tails appearing in these UV descriptions differ significantly from their \( \mathcal{N}=2 \) counterpart. We find a new type of object that we call the ‘Fan’. We show how to construct new \( \mathcal{N}=1 \) superconformal theories using the Fan. Various dual descriptions for these SCFTs can be identified with different colored pair-of-pants decompositions. For example, we find an \( \mathcal{N}=1 \) analog of Argyres-Seiberg duality for the SU(N ) SQCD with 2N flavors. We also compute anomaly coefficients and superconformal indices for these theories and show that they are invariant under dualities.
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Agarwal, P., Bah, I., Maruyoshi, K. et al. Quiver tails and \( \mathcal{N}=1 \) SCFTs from M5-branes. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 49 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2015)049
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